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The  Boston  Book  Market 


Edition  limited  to  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-one  Copies 


The  Boston  Book 
Market 

1679-1700 

By 
WORTHINGTON  ChAUNCEY  FoRD 


Boston 
The  Club  of  Odd  Volumes 

1917 


Copynght,  \9\7,by  TheClvi)  of  Odd  Volumes 


D.  B.  Updike  •  The  Merrymount  Press  -  Boston 


to  my  friend 

William  Vail  Kellen 

IN  recognition  of  his 

GENEROUS  APPRECIATION   OF 
ART  AND    LITERATURE 


U  3936 


Note 

This  volume  is  based  upon  manuscripts  colledted  by 
the  late  Mr.  Walter  Lloyd  Jeffries,  and  now  in  the 
possession  of  his  brother,  William  A.  Jeffries,  who 
gave  me  unrestricted  access  to  them.  Of  the  thirteen 
lists  and  documents  in  the  Appendices  all  are  drawn 
from  the  Jeffries  papers  except  the  inventory  of  the 
Grocer  books  and  the  inventory  of  the  Perry  estate. 
I  am  deeply  appreciative  of  the  privilege  to  make  so 
generous  a  use  of  papers,  unique  in  quantity  and  in 
quality,  which  afford  such  unquestioned  evidence  of 
the  reading  of  our  ancestors. 

WORTHINGTON    ChAUNCEY    FoRD 

Bosto7i,  November,  1917 


Contents 

Page 

The  Boston  Book  Market  3 

Robert  Boulter  9 

Richard  Chiswell  12 

John  Dunton  21 

Boston  Booksellers  25 

A  New  England  Primer  29 

An  Indian  Primer  33 

Benjamin  Harris,  Printer  35 

Horn- Books  41 

Bookbinding  42 

The  Invoices  analyzed  44 

Some  Readers  50 

Censorship  of  the  Press  57 

Product  of  the  Press  58 

The  Perry  Inventory  62 

The  Book  in  New  York  and  Virginia  64 

Appendices 

I.  The  Grocer  Books  71 

II.  Invoice  of  Stationery,  etc.  81 

III.  Richard  Chiswell  to  John  Usher,  1680  83 

IV.  Hayward's  Account  86 
V.  List  No.  I  (Boulter's),  1682  88 

VI.  List  No.  II  (Chiswell's),  1683  108 

VII.  List  No.  Ill  (Chiswell's),  1684  121 

VIII.  List  No.  IV  (Chiswell's),  1684  133 


Contents 

IX.  List  No.  V  (Chisweirs),1685  140 

X.  Account  against  Thomas  Newton  153 

XI.  Pembrook's  Account  I55 

XII.  Whippo's  Account  158 

XIII.  Inventory  of  Estate  of  Michael  Perry,  Bookseller,  1 700  1 63 

Index  185 


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List  of  Illustrations 

To  face  page 

Entry  by  John  Gain  of  a  "  New  England  Primer,"  October  5, 1683        3 
From  the  Stationers'  Registers^  London. 

Title-page  of  the  Catalogue  of  the  Leipsic  Book  Market,  1650  10 

From  the  British  Museum. 

Letter  from  Richard  Chiswell  to  John  Usher,  May  11,  1678  16 

From  the  Jeffries  Papers. 

Entry  by  Andrew  Thomcome  of  "  Profit  and  Pleasure  United,  or 
the  Husbandman's  Magazine,"  December  13,  1683  26 

From  the  Stationers'  Registers^  London. 

Title-page  of  John  Gain's  edition  of  Franck's  "  Philosophical 
Treatise "  30 

From  the  New  York  Public  Library. 

Title-page  of  the  "Account  of  the  Tryal  of  Benjamin  Hams,"  1679     36 
From  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library. 

"  The  Saint  tum'd  Curtezan"  40 

From  the  British  Museum. 

Resolve  of  Parliament  suppressing  all  Primers,  July  24,  1651  47 

From  the  Harvard  College  Library. 

Entry  by  Benjamin  Harris  of  "A  Relation  of  the  fearful  Estate 
of  Francis  Spira,"  March  7,  1682-83  50 

From  the  Stationers'  Registers^  London. 

Title-page  of  the  quarto  edition  of  Charles  Blount's  "  An  Appeal 
from  the  Country  to  the  City,  1679"  71 

From  the  Collection  of  Ernest  L.  Gay  in  the  Harvard  College  Library . 

Petition  of  Benjamin  Harris  to  Parliament  88 

From  the  Ford  Collection  in  the  New  York  Public  Library. 


List  of  Illustrations 

Title-page  of  Benjamin  Harris'  "  The  Triumphs  of  Justice  over 
Unjust  Judges"  108 

From  the  Ford  Collection  in  the  New  York  Public  Library. 

Invoice  of  Books  sent  by  Richard  Chiswell  to  John  Usher,  April 
13,  1685,  with  the  reference  to  a  "New  England  Primer"  150 

From  the  Jeffries  Papers. 

"The  Protestant  Cuckold"  162 

From  the  British  Museum. 


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The  Boston  Book  Market    : 

1679-1700  :  •   V 

BOSTON  has  always  held  a  certain  reputation  as 
a  bookish  centre — one  for  producing  as  well  as 
for  reading  books.  The  first  printing-press  in  an 
English  colony  on  the  mainland  of  America  was  set  up 
in  Cambridge,  always  in  reality  a  part  of  Boston,  with- 
out regard  to  geographical  or  political  bounds.  The  first 
newspaper  to  be  regularly  published  in  such  a  colony 
was  established  in  Boston,  and  maintained  a  name  and 
successful  existence  for  seventy-two  years.^  Although 
the  two  Dutch  visitors  to  Massachusetts  in  1680,  Ban- 
kers and  Sluyter,  spoke  rather  slightingly  of  the  li- 
brary of  Harvard  College,  yet  it  was  soon  to  become 
of  importance,  and  had  as  its  foundation  the  library  of 
Rev.  William  Ames,^the  very  name  being  an  assurance 
of  the  appropriate  quality  of  the  books.  Elder  Brewster's 
library  at  Plymouth,  so  skilfully  reconstru6led  by  Mr. 
Dexter,^  furnishes  an  example  of  a  well-sele6led  col- 
leftion  for  its  day,  possessing  features  which  prove  how 
closely  the  current  affairs  of  western  Europe  were  fol- 
lowed in  this  extreme  western  plantation  of  England. 
Brewster  died  in  1644,  and  the  inventory  of  his  library 
made  in  that  year  represented  what  was  in  all  probability 
the  largest  and  most  general  library  then  to  be  found  in 
English  America.  We  know  that  the  Winthrops  received 

^  Matthews,  in  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Publications,  ix.  42 1 . 
^  Tuttle,  in  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Publications,  xiv.  65. 
^  2  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Proceedings,  v.  37. 

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.  regularly  the  catalogues  of  the  great  book  fairs  in  Ger- 
many', and  they  made  choice  from  the  richness  offered; 
'but  >'iD  Winthrop  library,  as  such,  has  come  down  to  us. 
Professor  Kittredge  has  located  in  a  number  of  places 
books  which  had  once  belonged  to  the  members  of  the 
Winthrop  family,  several  hundreds  of  volumes;  but  it 
may  be  doubtful  if  a  catalogue  of  them  would  give  a 
just  representation  of  what  Governor  John  Winthrop 
and  his  son  had  gathered  in  their  busy  lives. 

We  have  inventories  of  books,  more  or  less  elabo- 
rate, filed  with  the  settlement  of  estates  of  Massachu- 
setts worthies,  and  even  that  of  a  Boston  bookseller;  but 
the  one  expresses  rather  the  individual  preference  in 
readingof  the  owners  than  the  general  taste  of  the  com- 
munity, and  the  other  would  be  valuable  only  in  num- 
bers for  comparison  and  to  give  some  idea  of  the  extent 
or  nature  of  the  Boston  book  market.  In  1653  Robert 
Keayne,  known  for  many  actions  in  the  early  years  of 
Massachusetts,  provided  in  his  will  for  a  town  library, 
leaving  to  such  an  institution  some  manuscript  volumes 
compiled  by  himself,  on  prophecies  and  interpretation 
of  the  whole  Bible,  as  well  as  such  of  his  divinity  books 
and  commentaries  as  his  executors  should  sele6l.^  This 
town  library  had  an  existence  of  near  a  century,  being 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1 747.^  The  library  of  the  reverend 
and  learned  Samuel  Lee,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  was 

^  Keayne  left  *' written  sermon  bookes,"  notes  on  sermons  he  had  heard  in 
England  and  Massachusetts.  Two  of  these  *'bookes"  are  in  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society. 

^  Canavan,  in  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Transactions,  xn.  1 1 6. 

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The  Boston  Book  Market 

catalogued  and  dispersed  in  1693;  the  catalogue,  the 
earliest  printed  catalogue  of  books  in  British  America, 
was  printed  in  Boston.  As  Lee  came  to  Rhode  Island 
in  1686,  his  library  of  about  one  thousand  titles  was  al- 
most exclusively  of  European  origin,  and  four-fifths  of 
the  works  were  in  the  Latin.  The  larger  hbrary  of  the 
Mathers  will  be  noticed  later. 

We  possess,  therefore,  in  these  sources  a  body  of 
material  on  certain  libraries  in  Massachusetts  in  the  sev- 
enteenth century;  and  such  industrious  bibliographers 
as  Sabin,  Eames,  and  Evans  have  told  us  much  about 
Boston  printers  and  their  produ6l.  Littlefield's  study  of 
Boston  booksellers  deals  lightly  with  the  subjeft,  and 
the  visit  to  Boston  in  1 686  of  that  amiable  plagiarist  and 
incipient  madman,  John  Dunton,  to  whom  critics  leave 
only  some  shreds  of  originality  and  little  respe6lability, 
adds  to  our  information  on  the  bookselling  profession 
in  his  day.  His  pi6lure  is  interesting  not  only  for  its 
local  color,  at  least  partly  to  the  life,  but  as  a  worldly 
pilgrimage  of  a  trading  bookseller,  well  recommended 
to  Massachusetts  by  his  clerical  connexions  in  Lon- 
don. His  testimony,  worthless  in  general,  is  good  on  his 
mission,  which  was  to  coUeft  some  debts  owing  to  him 
and  to  sell  books. 

It  will  not  be  necessary  to  follow  too  closely  Dun- 
ton's  selling  operations  while  in  Boston,  during  which 
time  he  states  that  "all  sorts  of  Persons  came  to  my 
Warehouse  to  buy  Books,  according  to  their  several 
Inclinations.''  He  sold  many  books  to  Harvard  College 
— John  Cotton  then  being  librarian.  His  retrospe6l  of 

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The  Boston  Book  Market 

his  campaign  was  not  encouraging:  **I  have  already 
trusted  out  ^400,  and  know  not  where  to  get  in  2^  of 
it;*'^  unless  one  accepts  in  abatement  a  later  assertion, 
wherein  he  says  that  he  was  returning  to  England  with 
=£400  in  silver,  and  had  further  credit  of  ^300,  a  total 
of  ^700.  That  sum  represented  less  than  a  six  months' 
residence  in  Boston.  A  part  of  his  returns  came  from 
some  back  debts  and  some  fortunate  publishing  ven- 
tures, the  most  important  being  three  sermons  on  the 
condemned  James  Morgan,  the  printing  of  which  gave 
such  joy  to  Cotton  Mather.^  Usher  had  offered  at  the 
start  to  buy  his  whole  stock ;  but  when  Dunton  found 
that  he  would  give  only  one-third  of  his  price,  he  con- 
cluded to  conduft  the  business  on  his  own  account.^ 

No  list  of  Dunton 's  offerings  has  come  down  to  us. 
He  prepared  such  a  list  for  the  librarian  of  Harvard 
College,  and  he  took  another  with  him  to  Salem,  but 
neither  is  known  to  exist.  No  detailed  invoice  of  books 
sent  from  London  to  Boston  in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury has  been  known,  and  one  or  more  invoices  of  that 
description  were  needed  to  measure  the  market  for 
foreign  books,  in  quality  at  least,  if  not  in  extent.  It  was 
therefore  with  some  expeftancy  that  in  the  Usher  pa- 
pers I  stumbled  upon  an  invoice  of  books  from  London 
in  1 685 ;  and  with  increasing  interest  that  I  found  in  the 
same  colle6lion  four  or  five  such  invoices,  together  with 
two  accounts  of  Usher  against  Boston  purchasers.  Here 

^  Dunton,  Letters  (Prince  Society),  74. 
2  Cotton  Mather,  Diary ^  i.  97  n.,  122. 
'  Dunton,  Letters^  78,  where  there  is  an  excellent  note  on  John  Usher. 

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The  Boston  Book  Market 

at  last  was  the  material  wanted,  and  the  more  it  was 
examined,  the  richer  it  appeared.  A  leading  bookseller 
of  Boston,  inheriting  the  taste  and  business  from  his 
father,  John  Usher  occupied  a  position  which  made  his 
orders  excellent  standards  of  measure.  His  London  con- 
nexion was  of  the  best. 

In  London  the  stationers  and  booksellers  had  early 
congregated  round  St.  Paul's,  where  the  names  of  the 
streets  and  lanes  announced  their  calling.  Before  print- 
ing,the  makers  of  Pater  Nosters  and  beads  and  the  text- 
writers  were  in  Pater  Noster  Row.  Writing  in  1603 
Stow  says  that  on  the  north  side  of  St.  Paul's  church- 
yard was  "  a  large  charnell  house  for  the  bones  of  the 
dead,  and  ouer  it  a  chappell  of  an  olde  foundation.  .  .  . 
The  Chappell  and  charnill  were  conuerted  into  dwell- 
ing houses  ware  houses  and  sheades  before  them  for 
Stacioners,  in  place  of  the  Tombes.'^^The  description  is 
suggestive  of  some  modern  libraries — a  form  of  tomb  for 
holding  what  could  well  be  forgotten. The  Pater  Noster 
makers  gave  place  to  sellers  of  printed  matter  and  the^ 
stationers  of  St.  Paul's  churchyard,  and  the  Stationers' 
Company  had  its  hall  at  the  end  of  Pater  Noster  Row. 
Here  Usher  visited  before  1680,  and  to  the  visitor  in 
London  to-day  the  map  of  Ralph  Agas,  made  between 

^  Stow,  Survey  of  London  (Kingsford),  i.  329,  330.  "This  streete  is  now 
called  Pater  Noster  Rowe,  because  of  Stacioners  or  Text  writers  that  dwelled 
there,  who  wrote  and  solde  all  sortes  of  Bookes  then  in  vse,  namely  J.  B.  C. 
with  the  Pater  Noster^  Aue^  Creede^  Graces,  etc.  There  dwelled  also  turners  of 
Beades,  and  they  were  called  Pater  Noster  makers.  ...  At  the  end  of  this 
Pater  Noster  Rowe^  is  Aue  Mary  lane,  so  called  vpon  the  like  occasion  of  text 
writers  and  Beade  makers."  Ibid.^  338. 

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1560  and  1570,  will  serve  as  a  correft  guide.  In  climb- 
ing Ludgate  we  have  on  the  right  Crede  Lane,  and  on 
the  left  Ave  Marie  Lane,  which  turns  into  Pater  Noster 
Row,  and  this  in  turn  leads  into  Cheapside.  At  Amen 
Corner,  where  Ave  Marie  Lane  and  Pater  Noster  Row 
meet,  was  Peter  College,  on  the  site  of  which  was  built 
Burgavenny  House, ^  to  become  Stationers'  Hall.  From 
this  quarter  of  the  city  came  the  books  sent  to  Usher. 
The  earliest  invoice  in  point  of  time  is  not  accom- 
panied by  a  list  of  the  books  contained  in  the  hogshead. 
The  value  given — £57.6.0. — shows  it  to  have  been 
a  shipment  of  size.  John  Ive,  of  London,  through  whom 
it  was  sent,  long  served  the  Usher  and  Jeffries  famihes 
as  a  general  agent,  dying  some  time  later  than  1703.^ 
An  occasional  mention  of  him  in  Se wall's  Diary  and 
Letter  Books  proves  him  to  have  been  a  regular  corre- 
spondent and,  on  subjefts  outside  of  business,  a  good 
source  of  political  information.  He  also  advanced  the 
money  Sewall  needed  when  in  London.^  All  the  ship- 
ments included    in  the   Usher  invoices  were  made 

^Stow,  Survey  of  London  (Kingsford),  i.  339.  The  Oxford  Press,  one  of 
the  great  presses  of  the  world,  has  its  city  offices  at  Amen  Corner. 
^  He  was  living  in  1 703 .  6  Mass.  Hist.  Coll. ,  ni.  541.  Ive  may  have  ventured 
books  on  his  own  account,  as  this  extmct  from  a  letter  of  Usher,  of  July  2, 
1675,  shows :  ''  As  for  your  bibles  they  are  still  by  me,  and  I  am  very  sorry 
you  should  charge  itt  to  me,  that  I  was  the  Occasion  of  sending  of  them,  for 
that  letter  which  you  so  much  insist  on  which  gaue  you  Encourigement,  was 
nott  for  bibles  bound  in  England  butt  in  holland.  this  I  am  sure  that  the 
bibles  you  sent  me  for  my  Acco.  from  Holland,  you  had  no  order  for  the 
sending  of  them  to  Barbados  first,  the  which  act  hath  so  spoiled  the  bibles, 
that  I  haue  >^  or  more  of  them  by  me  still.  And  I  judge  I  shall  neuer  see  the 
money  as  they  did  first  cost  me  for  them  Againe." 

^  See  4  Mass.  Hist.  Collections,  vm.  13,  502,  571. 

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through  him.^  Usher, however,  was  the  buyer  and  home 
distributor,  himself  a6ling  as  agent  for  some  of  the  min- 
isters, as  the  items  specially  ordered  for  Mather  and 
Shepard  indicate.  That  first  invoice  also  covered  a  large 
shipment  of  stationery,  and  the  list  gives  names  and 
qualities  of  papers  useful  to  the  antiquary.  Papers  from 
Holland,  France,  and  Italy  appear,  but  none  which  can 
be  with  certainty  assigned  to  England.  Vellums  and 
parchment,  as  well  as  quills,  also  seem  to  have  come 
from  the  continent. 

Robert  Boulter 

There  is,  in  this  collection,  a  bill  of  lading  dated  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1679-80,  unfortunately  mutilated,  signed  by 
John  Foy,  master  of  a  vessel.^  It  mentions  five  punch- 

^  Sewall  notes  that  in  1 695  Ive's  son  came  to  Boston, and  a  subsequent  entry 
in  the  Diary  for  1 698  reads :  "This  day  John  Ive,  fishing  in  g^reat  Spie-pond, 
is  arrested  with  mortal  sickness  which  renders  him  in  a  manner  speech- 
less and  senseless ;  dies  next  day ;  buried  at  Charlestown  on  the  Wednesday. 
Was  a  very  debauched,  atheistical  man.  I  was  not  at  his  Funeral.  Had  Gloves 
sent  me,  but  the  knowledge  of  his  notoriously  wicked  life  made  me  sick  of 
going :  and  Mr.  [Increase]  Mather,  the  president,  came  in  just  as  I  was  ready 
to  step  out,  and  so  I  staid  at  home,  and  by  that  means  lost  a  Ring :  but  hope 
had  no  loss.  Follow  thou  Me,  was  I  suppose  more  complied  with,  than  if 
I  had  left  Mr.  Mather's  company  to  go  to  such  a  Funeral."  Diary ^  i.  482. 
See  his  letter  to  Ive,  October  28,  1698,  announcing  the  death  of  his  son,  in 
Letter  Books,  i.  204. 

^  For  many  years  Foy  sailed  regularly  between  Boston  and  England .  It  was 
on  the  Dolphin,  John  Foy,  master,  that  the  two  Labadist  agents,  Jasper 
Bankers  and  Peter  Sluyter,  sailed  from  Boston  for  London,  July  23,1  680, 
evidently  the  return  voyage  to  that  mentioned  in  the  text.  Randolph  had  a 
liking  for  Foy,  commending  him  in  1684  to  Shrimpton  as  "very  diligent 
in  his  affairs.  I  hope  to  see  him  in  a  better  imploy,  when  your  Country  is 
once  setled.'*  4  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  vm.  527. 

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eons  and  one  butt  of**  Books  bound  and  unbound  ; "  but 
the  name  of  the  consigner,  "a  stationer''  of  London, 
has  been  lost.  A  note  in  the  margin — "  primage  pd  four 
and  six  pence  per  R.  B/' — points  to  Robert  Bouher.  In 
Arber's  list  of  persons  connefted  with  the  Stationers' 
Company  before  1 640  the  name  of  Boulter  occurs  three 
times.  In  August,  1 602 ,  payment  is  made  of  2  ^.  6  d.  for 
the  presentment  of  John  Boulter,  "  who  had  served  out 
his  prenticeship  without  presentment;"  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing May,  John  Boulter  was  "sworne  and  admitted  a 
freeman  of  this  company."  ^  A  William  Boulter  became 
a  freeman  in  November,  1624.^  Nothing  more  about 
these  two  men  is  to  be  gathered  from  Arber's  elaborate 
study  of  the  Stationers'  Registers.  In  the  continuation  of 
Arber's  work  by  Eyre  and  Rivington  the  minute  study 
of  publishers  as  in  Arber  is  not  continued,  and  the  loca- 
tion of  shops  can  be  ascertained  only  by  consulting  the 
title-pages  of  the  books  issued  from  each  shop.  In  April, 
1665,  Robert  Boulter  entered  A  Cloud  of  JVittnesses  or 
the  sufferers  mirrour  made  upp  of  Swanlike  Songs, etc., hy 
T[homasJ  MQall].  For  nearly  nine  years  no  other  indi- 
cation of  his  aftivities  is  found  in  the  Stationers'  records ; 
but  in  March,  1674-75,  he  takes  over  from  Jane  Un- 
derbill, widow  of  Thomas  Underbill,  "late  cittizen  and 
Stacconer  of  London,"  "all  her  estate,  right,  title  and 
interest,  of  in  and  to  the  severall  copies  following,  ( as 
alsoe  all  other  the  bookes  or  copies  or  parts  of  bookes 
or  copies  of  the  said  Thomas  Underbill  not  hereinafter 

^  Arber,  Transcript  of  the  Stationers*  Registers,  ii.  265,  734. 
2  Ibid.,  m.  686. 


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"^  ©t>rrj^iei)  ®refl[htiei  /»nb|>«:ttnittg©r offend  ©; ig^en^ 
SJitd^fdbett  jubcjinbett.  .    , 

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menconed. )"  A  list  of  twenty-two  volumes  followed  in 
the  record,  the  most  important  of  which  was  a  half-inter- 
est in  Baxter's  Saints'  Everlasting  Rest.  Underhill  had 
dipped  into  authorship  on  his  own  account,  for  the  last 
volume  on  the  list  bears  the  title  Hell 's  brooke  loose,  or 
an  history  of  the  Quakers,  both  old  and  new,  by  Thomas 
Underbill.^  He  had  also  beenawarmopponent  of  popish 
literature.^  As  a  rule  a  publishing  bookseller  at  that  time 
was  opposed  to  Roman  Catholicism,  presumably  because 
of  the  many  restriftions  imposed  by  that  Church  upon 
the  general  reading  of  the  people,  which,  had  they  been 
enforced,  would  have  made  bookselling  and  printing 
too  precarious  to  be  profitable.  As  it  was,  the  course  of 
publishing  was  none  too  smooth,  and  an  error  of  judg- 
ment might  involve  the  publisher  in  proceedings  which 
could  prove  ruinous. 

In  1669  Robert  Boulter  is  at  the  Turk's  Head,  Bishops- 
gate  Street.  More  than  half  a  century  before — in  1603 
— John  Barnes  carried  on  a  book  business  at  the  Turk's 
Head  in  Fleet  Street.  Later  Boulter  had  the  Turk's 
Head,  Cornhill,  "over  against  the  Royal  Exchange," 
or  at''  the  Old  Exchange  "  ( 1 676 ) ;  and  Usher  began  to 
deal  with  him  at  that  place.  That  the  dealings  between 
the  two  men  had  continued  for  some  years  before  1 680 
is  shown  by  the  reminder  from  Ive  in  October,  1680, 
that  Boulter's  account  against  Usher  was  ^370.8.9, 
and  he  added:  "Mr.  Bolter  wanting  money,  I  let  him 
have  ^100  and  tooke  his  bond,  therefore  Pray  let  his 

^  Stationers*  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  ii.  503,  504. 
^  See  British  Museum  Catalogue,  under  his  name. 


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money  come  into  my  hands  for  I  did  it  to  serve  you." 
It  is  worthy  of  note  that  the  first  of  the  itemized  lists 
printed  below  was  of  books  sent  by  Boulter  "  without 
order" — that  is,  in  commercial  language,  "for  a  mar- 
ket." It  was  a  mercantile  adventure,  and  is  the  only 
one  thus  described.^  The  list  bears  no  date;  but  it  must 
have  been  sent  about  1682,  as  it  contains  an  item  cer- 
tainly printed  in  that  year,  but  none  of  a  later  time. 

With  this  consignment  Boulter  drops  from  the  rec- 
ords before  us,  except  in  the  following  extraft  of  a  letter 
from  Ive  to  Usher,  dated  March  1,  1683:  ''  Mr.  Bolter 
is  dead,  left  a  wife  and  5  Children  and  not  a  penny  to 
keep  them."^  The  last  publication  bearing  Boulter's 
name  is  mentioned  in  the  Term  Catalogue  of  February, 
1683,  showing  that  he  died  in  a6live  following  of  his 
calling.  Richard  Chiswell  took  his  place  as  the  regular 
agent  in  London  of  Usher,  and  maintained  the  relation 
for  some  years. 

Richard  Chiswell 

Business  relations  had  existed  between  Usher  and 
Chiswell  for  some  years.  In  a  fragment  of  Usher's  Let- 
ter Book  in  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  there 
are  letters  from  Usher  to  Chiswell.  The  earliest  in  date 

^  In  the  Massachusetts  Archives^  Lvm.  247,  is  an  invoice  of  a  parcel  of  books 
sent  per  Anthony  Young-,  on  account  of  Madame  Rebecca  Overton,  Lon- 
don, to  be  disposed  of  "  for  her  most  advantage."  It  is  dated  June  8,  1 709, 
and  comprises  forty-nine  titles.  It  is  printed  in  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Transactions, 
xm.  291. 

^  The  letter  is  dated  from  Colchester  Street.  Dun  ton  speaks  of  the  "clan- 
destine Boulter,"  but  the  reference  is  not  explained.  Life  and  Errors y  292. 


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contains  information  of  real  value  on  the  1675  edition 
of  the  Massachusetts  Laws — a  subjeft  ably  and  defini- 
tively treated  by  my  colleague,  Mr.  Matthews^  —  and 
some  interesting  notes  on  Harvard  College.  It  is  not 
dated,  but  was  written  in  06lober  or  November,  1674. 

John  Usher  to  Richard  Chiswell 
Sir: 

THESE  are  to  Accompany  the  with  inclosed  inuoise  for 
books  the  which  I  desire  may  be  sent ;  by  one  Mr.  Wal- 
dren  I  haue  sent  190  New  Engl.  Law  bookes,  the  which  as 
nouelties  with  you  may  sell.  I  haue  printed  an  impression  which 
hath  made  me  thus  to  Aduenture,  and  as  for  Mr.  Sidenhams 
Affairs  you  to  entreat  him  to  signifye  to  me  what  I  shall  doe 
willing  to  come  out  of  his  and  euery  bodyes  debt,  besides,  our 
Colledge  heer  is  like  to  go  to  ruin,  the  scollers  haueing  wholy 
deserted  itt,  that  there  is  nott  att  this  time  one  remaineing  that 
it  hath  caused  much  distraction  what  the  Euent  of  things  may 
be  and  I  doe  think  if  the  president  of  the  Colledge^  was  his 
owne  freind  he  would  Lay  downe  his  place,  the  scolers  being 
resolued  not  to  returne  to  the  Colledge  while  the  president  doth 
remaine  there,  be  pleased  to  Acquaint  ^  I  shall  take  order  to  the 
payment  of  som  moneys  to  him,  Sir,  it  doth  very  much  troble 
me  your  keping  of  me  in  the  darke  as  Conserning  the  pay- 
ment of  som  bills,  one  drawne  by  Mr.  Child  here  for  50  /?', 
the  other  by  Mr.  Paige  heer  for  100  li:  the  which  Last  bill  I 
haue  no  Acco't  of  the  Acceptance  or  non  Acceptance,  though 
the  vessell  in  which  it  was  sent  to  you  was  Ariued  som  Con- 
siderable time  before  Mr.  Joseph  Gillam  did  come  from  Lon- 
don, of  which  thing  for  the  future  I  desire  timely  notis,  for 

^  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Publications^  xix.  2  1 . 

^  Leonard  Hoar. 

^  A  name  is  written  in  the  margin  against  this  line — '^Mr.  Hattley  "  —  but 

it  may  be  the  person  through  whom  the  letter  was  sent. 

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nothing  Like  intelligence  Conserning  Affairs  is  most  accepta- 
ble ;  wishing  you  all  health  and  prosperity  I  remaine  Sir  your 
reall  freind 

J.  V. 

In  a  letter,  dated  March  22,  1674-75,  he  inclosed  an 
order  for  books,  while  informing  Chiswell  that "  Do6lor 
Hoare  has  laide  down  his  place  as  president,  and  Mr. 
OakesMoth  supply  it  till  May/' Ten  weeks  later  he  sent 
another  order,  with  a  complaint  and  suggestion  about 
shipping. 

Chiswell  was  something  more  than  a  bookseller,  for 
he  did  not  hesitate  to  offer  an  appreciation  of  a  work, 
whether  published  by  himself  or  not.  This  opinion  was 
not  made  the  less  valuable  because  it  happened  to  be 
based  upon  two  qualities  of  uncertain  application  —  gen- 
eral expression  of  readers  and  the  number  of  copies 
sold.  At  a  time  when  no  organ  for  publishing  critical 
notices  of  books  existed,  a  record  of  what  the  public 
thought  has  its  uses,  even  if  tinged  with  a  commercial 
coloring.^  Thus  Chiswell  wrote  to  Increase  Mather  in 
February,  1676-77: 

I  have  added  a  few  new  things  of  good  note  which  I  hope 
you  will  be  pleased  with.  The  first  of  them  is  an  answer  to 
a  pamphlet  I  sent  you  in  the  last  parcell,  and  which  makes 
no  small  stir  here  at  present.^  Hales  of  Eaton,*  and  Stilling- 

^UrianOakes  (1631-1681). 

^  Cf.  the  letters  of  James  Allestry  to  Edward,  Viscount  Conway,  on  books, 
in  the  British  State  Papers.    - 

^  Probably  the  Pacquet  of  Advices  to  the  Men  of  Shaftesbury. 

^  Probably  The  Golden  Remains  of  the  ever  memorable  Mr.  [John]  Hales^ 
of  Eaton  CoUedge.  Published  by  R.  Pawlet  in  1673. 

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fleet ^  are  very  famous.  Walker  of  Baptism^  is  said  to  be  very 
learned  and  exceedingly  well  done.  The  two  books  of  Con- 
templations^ were  writ  by  the  Lord  Cheif  Justice  Hales,  a  per- 
son who  for  all  kind  of  learning,  Philosophy,  Physick,  Mathe- 
maticks,  etc.,  as  well  as  Law  (his  proper  profession,)  and  for 
most  exemplary  piety  and  untainted  integrity  and  upright- 
ness, has  not  left  his  fellow,  nor  was  there,  as  tis  beleived,  ever 
his  fellow  in  our  English  Courts  of  Judicature  before  him,  the 
whole  nation  mournes  for  the  loss  of  him.  That  Great  audit  or 
Good  Steward's  account,  in  the  first  vollume,  is  a  most  lively 
and  exact  character  of  his  life  and  practice  to  his  dying  day, 
and  so  great  an  honour  and  esteem  doe  all  good  men  here  beare 
to  his  memory,  that  I  know  not  any  two  books  have  come  forth 
these  20  yeares,  that  have  sold  in  so  great  a  number  in  so  short 
a  time,  as  these  two  vollumes  of  his,  though  published  without 
his  consent. 

And  there  was  appended  to  this  letter  a  list  of  books 
sent  to  Mather  on  order,  and  the  titles  of  works  added 
in  the  hope  of  pleasing  him,  together  with  the  Term 
Catalogues,  Nos.  7  to  i  o.  Having  some  space  in  the  cask , 
he  filled  it  with  books  sent  to  Usher  "without  order'' 
and  proceeded: 

You  may  see  them  at  his  shop,  and  I  hope  may  help  some  of 
them  off  his  hands,  by  recommending  them  to  your  publick  Li- 
brary, especially  the  new  ones,  which  cannot  be  there  already, 
particularly  Dr.  Caves  Lives  of  the  Fathers,*  and  Dr.  Cary's 

^  Letter  to  a  Deist.  Sold  by  Moses  Pitt. 

^  A  modest  Plea  for  Infant  Baptism^  by  William  Walker.  Published  in  1676 
by  Henry  Dickinson  of  Cambridge. 

^  Contemplations  Moral  and  Divine.,  printed  after  Hale's  death.  The  author 
was  Sir  Matthew  Hale  (1609-1676). 

*  Apostolid.,  or  the  History  of  the  Lives,  Acts,  Death  and  Martyrdoms,  of 
those  who  were  contemporary  with,  or  immediately  succeeded,  the  Apostles. 
Published  in  1676,  by  Chiswell. 

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Chronologicall  account  of  ancient  time/  which  are  both  exceed- 
ing well  esteemed  by  the  most  learned  and  ingenious  men  here. ^ 

When  Usher  went  to  London  in  1677  or  1678,  he  had 
engaged  through  Chiswell  the  purchase  of  a  coach  and 
harness,  according  to  the  following  letter: 

Richard  Chiswell  to  John  Usher 

Mr.  John  Vsher  :  -^''"'*"'  ^"^  "'  ^^^^^ 

WEE  have  at  last  shipt  off  your  Coach  butt  could  not  gett 
it  into  the  hold  of  any  but  a  Mast  ship  and  therefore 
by  Mr.  John  Ives  advice  it  was  putt  on  board  the  black  Cock 
Captain  Cock  Master.  Mr.  Ive  hath  taken  care  of  the  bill  of 
Lading  to  send  it  to  you.  the  whole  charge  of  the  Coach  and 
2  paire  of  Harnasses  and  Toppings  and  odd  glass  for  the  Dore 
and  Case  for  the  Coach  and  charges  of  shipping  amounted  to 
41/.  the  one  half  whereof  Mr.  Ives  hath  paid  on  Mr.  Lidgetts^ 
account,  the  other  half  I  paid  for  yours,  the  fifty  shillings  I  re- 
ceived of  you  as  earnest  I  have  placed  to  account  which  I  have 
stated  as  on  the  other  side.  I  pray  remember  my  concern  with 
your  Brother  Vsher,  I  mean  Dr.  Hoars  Debt.*  I  hope  he  will 
not  be  so  unreasonable  as  to  putt  me  off  any  longer,  it  is  as 
justly  due  to  me  as  any  debt  you  have  due  to  you  in  the  world. 
Sir,  I  hope  this  will  find  you  safely  returned  to  your  owne  hab- 
itation. I  pray  God  preserve  you  and  yours.  We  maybe  merry, 
but  we  must  be  serious  also.  Your  Friend  and  Servant. 

Rig.  Chiswell.^ 

^  By  Robert  Gary,  and  also  published  by  Chiswell. 

^  4  Mass.  Hist.  Collections^  viii.  575. 

^  Charles  Lidget,  brother  of  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  John  Usher. 

*  Leonard  Hoar.  Hezekiah,  the  brother  of  John  Usher,  had  married  (No- 
vember 29,  1676)  Bridget,  daughter  of  John  and  Alicia  Lisle,  and  widow 
of  Leonard  Hoar,  President  of  Harvard  College. 

*  This  letter  is  endorsed  as  received  September  30,  1 678. 

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Who  was  Chis  well?  The  name  is  not  recorded  in  Arber's 
Stationers*  Registers ,  and  was  probably  of  a  later  origin. 
Richard  Chiswell,  **the  elder''  (1639-1711),  to  dis- 
tinguish him  from  his  son,  the  traveller,  finds  a  place 
in  the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography  (x.  9.6^).  By 
1680  he  had  received  official  orders  for  printing  which 
gave  him  standing,  but  he  dealt  principally  in  theology, 
which  would  naturally  commend  him  in  New  England. 
In  1685  he  was  one  of  the  four  who  issued  the  fourth 
folio  edition  of  Shakespeare's  works,  and  later  he  pub- 
lished Burnet's  History  of  the  Reformation,  losing  in 
the  process  some  valuable  original  letters  written  by 
Mary  Stuart  to  Queen  Elizabeth  and  Leicester,  which 
Evelyn  had  lent  to  the  historian.^  Dunton  said  that  he 
"  well  deserves  the  title  of  metropolitan  bookseller  of 
England,  if  not  of  all  the  world."  In  the  Term  Cata- 
logues, Chiswell  had  his  shop,  first,  at  the  Two  Angels 
and  Crown,  Little  Britain, and  later  in  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard, under  the  sign  of  the  Rose  and  Crown.  These 
signs  would  constitute  a  study  in  themselves,  and  were 
movable  features.  In  1 58 1  there  was  a  Rose  and  Crown, 
"  over  against  the  Falcon,  near  unto  Holborn  Bridge," 
and  thus  nearer  the  Old  Bailey  than  St.  Paul's.  In  com- 
pensation, perhaps,  it  was  subsequently  "next  above 
St.  Andrew's  church"  ( 1592),  and  until  1602  was  oc- 

^  It  was  long  the  practice  to  send  original  materials  to  the  printer,  and  the 
compositor  used  them  at  his  case.  The  expense  of  copying  was  saved  in  that 
way,  but  the  risk  to  the  documents  was  greatly  increased.  Some  of  the  ori- 
ginal manuscripts  in  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  bear  the  thumb 
marks  of  the  typesetters,  and  it  may  be  conjectured  that  the  Letter  Book  of 
William  Bradford,  printed  in  1  Collections,  m.  27,  was  thus  used,  and  lost. 

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cupied  by  Richard  Jones.  In  that  year  his  son,  Thomas 
Jones,  succeeded  to  the  business.  Here  must  pass  a  long 
period  of  time — more  than  sixty-five  years — in  which 
nothing  can  be  learned  of  the  sign;  but  in  1669  James 
Allestry  ^  occupied  the  Rose  and  Crown  in  St.  Paul's 
Churchyard,  and  was  publisher  to  the  Royal  Society, 
which  began  to  print  its  proceedings  in  March,  1665. 
When  Chiswell  became  a  member  of  the  Stationers' 
Company  I  have  not  learned.  Allestry  disappears  from 
the  Term  Catalogues  after  June,  1670.  At  that  time 
Chiswell  was  doing  business  at  the  Two  Angels  and 
Crown  in  Little  Britain.^  In  May,  1672,  his  books  gave 
''St  Paul's  Churchyard"  as  his  location,  and  in  Febru- 
ary, 1673,  the  Rose  and  Crown  in  St.  Paul's  Church- 
yard.^ In  the  autumn  of  that  year  (September,  1673) 
he  absorbed  a  part  of  the  stock  of  Mary  Keirton,  widow 
of  William  Keirton,  citizen  and  stationer  of  London.* 
Twenty-one  titles  thus  passed  to  John  Wright,  of  the 

^  See  Dictionary  of  National  Biography^  i.  325,  where  it  is  stated  that  Al- 
lestry lost  his  property  in  the  great  fire. 

^  It  was  from  this  shop  that  he  published  in  1670  Nathaniel  Morton's  New 
England's  Memorial.  Term  Catalogues {Arher),  i.  38.  Matthews,  in  Col.  Soc. 
Mass.  Transactions,  xiv.  278. 

^  Ibid.,  103,  126.  On  Chiswell's  death  in  1711,  the  premises  and  business 
passed  into  the  hands  of  Charles  Rivington,  "who  changed  the  sign  of  the 
'  Rose  and  Crown '  to  the  *  Bible  and  Crown,'  and  laid  the  foundation  of  the 
famous  house  of  Rivington,  the  oldest  English  publishing  firm."  Dictionary 
of  National  Biography,  x.  265.  James  Rivington,  the  sixth  son  of  Charles, 
came  to  America  and  gained  reputation  and  notoriety  by  his  publications, 
loyalism,  and  perhaps  services  to  Washington,  in  the  War  of  Independence, 
There  was  a  Rose  and  Crown  Tavern  in  Boston  in  1693. 
*  William  Keirton  had  been  executor  of  Joshua  Keirton,  also  a  stationer, 
and  probably  his  father. 

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Globe  in  Little  Britain,  and  Richard  Chiswell,  some  in 
divinity,  some  text-books,  and  some  of  a  miscellaneous 
nature.^  Finally,  in  1683  Chiswell  became  one  of  the 
publishers  to  the  Royal  Society,  but  only  for  a  brief 
period.^ 

Whilst  the  earliest  itemized  list  of  books  sent  by  Chis- 
well is  dated  September,  1683,  it  does  not  represent  the 
first  transa6lion  nor  the  first  shipment.  Usher  must  have 
talked  with  him  when  in  London,  and  two  years  after, 
in  1680,  Chiswell  chides  him  for  withdrawing  his  cus- 
tom and  explains  why  the  book  market  was  depressed 
and  the  influence  upon  it  of  the  Popish  Plot.^  He  sub- 
mits a  short  list  of  titles  and  prices,  and  invites  Usher 
to  resume  relations.  He  had  also  issued  in  this  year 
a  work  designed  for  the  New  England  market —  The 
New  England  Psalms  .  .  .faithfully  translated  into 
English  Metres,  for  the  use  edification  and  comfort  of 
the  Saints,  inpublick  and  private , especially  in  New  Eng- 
land. So  far  as  the  sale  of  a  book  was  concerned,  a  sinner 
ranked  with  a  saint,  and  Usher  would  be  a  fit  agent  to 
reach  both  sorts  of  buyers.  Chiswell,  in  March,  1682- 
83,  sent  to  Usher  one  hogshead  of  books  by  the  John 
Bonadventure ,  Andrew  Cratey,  master.  The  invoice 
gave  a  value  of  ^70.10.7.  It  may  have  been  of  this 
invoice  that  Ive  wrote  to  Usher,  March  1,  1683: 

^  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  ii.  466. 

^  Through  him  was  published,  in  1689,  Nathaniel  Byfield's  Account  of  the 
Late  Revolution  in  New-England.  It  was  licensed  June  27,  and  on  July  1 
"came  out  publickly  by  the  Hawkers.*'  Sewall,  i?fary,  i.  262. 

*  Page  83,  infra. 

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Soe  soone  as  I  had  your  Invoyse  of  bookes  I  went  about  them, 
and  I  haue  bin  aboue  a  dozen  times  at  the  shopp,  and  I  am 
afrayd  shall  haue  them  left  out  in  Captn.  Wilde  this  shipp, 
Captn.  Clarke  hauing  bin  full  some  time;  stationers  bookes 
will  not  drye.  Now  come  to  the  3d  March  and  I  haue  bin 
about  the  Bookes  today  agayne  and  Booke  seller  and  stationer 
were  together  and  wee  shall  Packe  them  this  night.  I  wondered 
att  Mr.  Bolter.^  he  Packd  somewhat  of  other  mens  goods 
with  yours.  I  sent  your  Trifles  with  others  because  they  would 
haue  bin  lost  being  soe  small  and  soe  greate  a  Charge  to 
enter  them,  but  I  haue  your  order  and  shall  not  doe  it  a  sec- 
ond time.  I  haue  got  a  note  from  Captn.  Wild  to  take  your 
Goods  abord  tomorrow,  being  one  greate  Caske  and  fower 
Bayles. 

Wee  come  to  the  4  March  and  haue  bin  twice  today  at  the 
Booke  sellers  and  at  the  Stationers  see  the  Goods  all  put  vp, 
and  haue  bin  about  theyr  entring  alsoe,  and  doe  not  doubt  but 
to  haue  them  abord  this  afternoone  because  else  the  Capt.will 
not  take  them  abord. 

The  second  list  printed  below  was  shipped  by  Chis- 
well,  September,  1683,  on  the  Southampton  merchant, 
Andrew  Belcher,  master.  The  third  was  reported  by 
Ive,  March  5, 1683-84,  as  going  in  the  Elizabeth,  John 
Wild,  master;  the  fourth,  in  June,  1684,  in  the  Ad- 
venture, John  Balston,  master;  and  the  fifth,  in  April, 
1685,  in  the  Elizabeth,  Peter  Butler,  master.  With  this 
shipment  our  hsts  end ;  but  in  August,  1 685,"  onepunch- 
eon,  one  hogshead  and  three  Bayles/'  containing  books 
and  stationery  valued  at  ^125.8.4,  and  one  box  of 

^  I  believe  this  to  be  the  bookseller ;  yet,  writing  in  September,  1 683,  Ive  said : 
"The  same  day  I  had  your  Goods  from  Mr.  Bolter  he  told  me  he  was  then 
forthwith  to  go  for  Scotland."  This  may  be  in  reply  to  some  inquiry  from 
Usher. 

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books,  valued  at  5^13. 12.8,  were  sent  by  the  Richard, 
Thomas  Jolls,  master.  No  subsequent  importations 
from  London  are  to  be  found  in  the  Usher  papers. 


John  Dun  ton 

The  total  value  of  books  imported  in  the  seven  years 
by  one  bookseller  is  impressive — £56j;  but  it  is  as 
measures  of  the  nature  of  the  Boston  book  market  that 
the  lists  serve  as  good  evidence.  It  is  a  happy  coinci- 
dence that  while  our  last  list  is  dated  April,  1685,  in 
06lober  John  Dunton,  bookseller  of  London,  sailed  for 
Boston  in  the  Susan  and  Thomas,  Thomas  Jenner,  mas- 
ter. Dunton  had  been  with  Thomas  Parkhurst  of  the 
Bible  and  Three  Crowns,  at  the  lower  end  of  Cheapside, 
near  Mercer's  Chapel,  one  of  the  more  important  pub- 
lishers of  books ;  but  in  1 68 1  he  made  a  venture  by  him- 
self, and  issued  from  the  Black  Raven, Poultry,^  his  first 
publication,  a  volume  by  that  long-suffering  non-con- 
formist tutor,Thomas  Doolittle,^  whose  publisher  Park- 
hurst had  been.  The  Black  Raven  is  more  accurately 
located  on  his  title-pages  as  "over  against  the  Stocks 
Market,''  ''over  against  the  Compter,"  or  "corner  of 
Prince  Street,  near  the  Royal  Exchange."  The  house, 
described  by  Dunton  as  large,  had  been  occupied  by 

^  Whitmoreis  thus  in  error  when  he  says  that  Dunton  first  opened  his  shop  — 
Black  Raven  —  in  1 6  8  8 ,''  on  the  day  the  Prince  of  Orange  entered  London . ' ' 
Introduction  to  Dunton's  Xe^/ers  (Prince  Society),  xi.  Dunton  states  that 
the  Prince  Street  house  was  taken  by  him  after  his  marriage — probably  in 
1682. 

^  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  458  —  November,  1681. 

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one  Roger  White,  *' who  was  so  much  noted  for  his 
courage  in  arresting  Justice  Balch  for  sending  him  to 
prison  from  Dr.  Annesley's  [^Dunton's  father-in-law] 
Meeting/*  It  was  to  this  house  that  Dunton  brought  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Annesley,  whom  he  married  in  August, 
1682,  and  who  proved  the  better  manager  of  the  busi- 
ness, leaving  Dunton  "entirely  to  my  own  rambling 
and  scribbling  humors/'  He  soon  became  an  important 
bookseller  and  publisher — the  two  words  were  really 
synonymous — and  some  golden  days  of  success  and 
prosperity  followed. 

The  reason  for  his  journey  to  Boston  was  the  hard 
times  in  the  book  trade  occasioned  by  Monmouth's 
rebellion,  which  found  Dunton  with  a  stock  of  unsold 
books  on  his  hands,  and  with  accounts  of  £500  owing 
him  from  New  England.^  He  believed  he  had  what  Bos- 
ton would  wish  to  buy,  such  as  the  Continuation  of  the 
Morning  Exercises,  and  like  religious  works;  but  his 
father-in-law  wisely  advised  moderation  in  his  expec- 
tations, and  against  taking  too  large  a  cargo:  "I  think 
it  will  be  less  trouble  to  you  to  wish  there  that  you  had 
brought  more,  than  to  fret  at  the  want  of  a  market  for 
too  many.''  None  the  less  he  brought "  a  great  number 
of  books,"  one  half  of  which,  apparently,  he  lost  in  the 
Downs,  in  what  manner  he  does  not  relate. 

On  reaching  Boston  Dunton  found  a  former  book- 


^  No  contemporary  mention  of  such  debts  has  been  traced  in  our  manuscript 
records,  and  certainly  he  had  little  or  no  dealings  with  Usher.  Samuel  Phil- 
lips, of  Boston,  had  been  a  correspondent,  but  Dunton  makes  no  complaint 
against  him  of  unpaid  accounts. 

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seller  of  Limerick,  Richard  Wilkins,  occupying  a  house 
beyond  his  needs/'  opposite  to  theTown-House  in  Bos- 
ton/'and  anxious  to  let  lodgings  and  a  convenient  ware- 
house/ This  exactly  suited  the  wants  of  Dunton,  and 
he  there  displayed  his  wares.  As  in  London  the  book- 
sellers clustered  round  St.  Paul's  and  the  Exchange,  so 
in  Boston  they  gathered  round  the  Town  House.^  Nat- 
urally, among  the  first  whom  Dunton  visited  were  the 
Mathers,  Increase  and  Cotton,  notable  book  colleftors 
and  producers  in  that  day.  Of  the  "study''  of  Increase 
Mather  he  wrote  enthusiastically:  "I  do  think  he  has 
one  of  the  best  ( for  a  Private  Library )  that  I  ever  saw: 
Nay,  I  may  go  farther,  and  affirm.  That  as  the  Famous 
Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford,  is  the  Glory  of  that  Uni- 
versity, if  not  of  all  Europe,  (for  it  exceeds  the  Vati- 
can,) so  I  may  say,  That  Mr.  Mather's  Library  is  the 
glory  of  New-England,  if  not  of  all  America.  I  am  sure 
it  was  the  best  sight  that  I  had  in  Boston."^ 

Dunton  came  well  recommended  to  the  ministers  of 

^  Dunton's  Letters  (Prince  Society),  63,  where  a  description  of  Wilkins  and 
his  family  is  given.  Evans  states  that  he  was  a  bookseller  in  Boston  from 
1689  to  1695,"  near  the  Town-House, "  and  in  1 6  9  6 ,  "  near  the  Old  Meet- 
ing House."  He  was  nominated  to  be  postmaster  after  the  downfall  of  An- 
dros,  and  died  at  Milton,  December  10,  1704,  blind  and  helpless.  Sewall, 
Diary ^  ii.  114.  He  may  be  intended  when  Dunton  describes  "Apprentice 
Wilkins  (commonly  called  so  from  his  being  a  good  servant  and  a  bad  mas- 
ter)." Life  and  Errors^  292. 

2  Sewall,  Diary ^  i.  1 6 1  w.  In  1 686  Usher  occupied  a  new  brick  dwelling-house 
"near  the  Councill  House,  fronting  upon  the  broad  street." 

^  Dunton's  Letters^  75.  The  son  of  Cotton  estimated  that  the  Mather  library 
contained  more  than  seven  thousand  volumes,  and  a  "prodigious  Number  of 
valuable  Manuscripts. ' '  See  Tuttle,  in  2  Am.Antiq.  Soc.  Proceedings,  xx.  2  69 . 
On  page  280  is  printed  a  catalogue  of  Increase  Mather's  library  in  1664. 

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Boston.  His  father-in-law,  Rev.  Samuel  Annesley,  was, 
he  said,  counted  in  New  England  as ''a  second  St.  Paul." 
Rev.  Charles  Morton,  w^ho,  at  Stoke  Newington,  near 
London,  carried  on  the  chief  school  of  dissenters,  and 
who  came  to  New  England  in  July,  1686,  became  a 
Fellow  of  Harvard  College  (1692-97)  and  its  first 
Vice-President  ( 1 697-98 )  ,^  gave  him  a  letter  to  Joseph 
Dudley,  and  Stretton,  another  clergyman  of  London, 
commended  him  to  Stoughton.  Fond  of  disputing  on 
matters  of  divinity,  Dunton  could  excite  the  interest  of 
the  ministers  by  his  questions  as  well  as  by  his  books, 
and  he  made  good  use  of  the  opportunity.  Then  there 
were  the  printers.  John  Allen,^  a  nephew  of  Rev.  James 
Allen  of  the  First  Church,  Boston,  had  been  a  fellow 
passenger  in  the  Susan  and  Thomas,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  he  established  himself  as  a  bookseller,  follow- 
ing that  calling  until,  as  printer,  he  was  associated,  first 
w^ith  Bartholomew  Green  ( 1690)  and  later  with  Ben- 
jamin and  Vavasour^  Harris  ( 1691-95).  He  met  Sam- 
uel Green,  the  younger,  *'  the  Chief  Printer  in  Boston," 
who  had  the  Foster-Sewall  press,  and  Richard  Pierce, 
at  that  time  printer  to  the  *'  Honorable  his  Majesty's 
President  and  Council  in  this  his  Territory  and  Domin- 
ion of  New  England" — the  only  two  printers  then  in 
Boston.  He  consorted  with  the  booksellers — his  breth- 

^  Dictionary  of  National  Biography^  xxxix.  149. 

^  One  of  the  name  was  a  bookseller  in  London  in  1667,  dabbling  in  judicial 
astrology ;  but  there  is  no  reason,  except  the  similarity  of  names,  to  associate 
the  two. 

^  His  son,  for  Dunton  speaks  of  Harris  having  a  son  associated  with  him  in 
business.  Life  and  Errors^  466. 

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ren,  he  termed  them ;  "  tho'  I  know  they  love  to  be  re- 
spe6led,  yet  at  the  same  time  I  am  satisfy 'd  that  Tm  as 
welcome  to  'em  as  Sowr  Ale  in  summer;  they  Look 
upon  my  Gain  to  be  their  Loss,  and  do  make  good  the 
Truth  of  that  old  Proverb,  That  Interest  will  not  \ie/'^ 


Boston  Booksellers 

Samuel  Phillips,  ''in  the  West  End  of  the  Exchange,'* 
or  Town  House,  with  whom  he  dealt  to  the  oxtent 
of  =gioo,  is  described  as  "young,  witty,  and  the  most 
Beautiful  Man  in  the  whole  Town  of  Boston ;  He  *s  very 
Just,  and  (as  an  effeft  of  that)  Thriving/'^  He  con- 
tinued in  the  business  until  his  death  in  1717,  when 
his  son,Gillam  Phillips,  succeeded  him.  The  next  book- 
seller to  whomDunton  paid  his  compliments  was  Joseph 
Brunning  ( or  Browning ) ,  a  Dutch  bookseller  from  Hol- 
land, with  a  shop  near  the  Town  House,  and  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Prison  Lane  ( later  Queen,  and  now  Court  Street ) , 
from  1683  to  his  death  in  1691.  An  early  list  of  books 
printed  for  and  sold  by  him  is  in  Moodey's  Pradlical 
Discourse  ( 1685  ).^  It  gives  three  Increase  Mather  titles 
and  an  announcement  of  a  fourth,  one  of  Nathaniel 

^  Dunton's  Letters^  77. 

^  Ibid..,  79.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Gillam  and  Hannah 
Savage,  thus  giving  him  a  wide  and  important  connection.  N.  E.  Gen.  Hist. 
Reg..,  XIX.  254. 

^  Brunning  married,  in  1687,  Marah,  daughter  of  Josiah  Cobham,  and  she 
received  from  her  father  as  a  marriage  portion  two  acres  of  land  adjoining 
John  Leverett's  land  and  south  of  the  Mill  Pond.  Susanna  Brunning,  who 
was  baptized  in  March,  1691,  may  have  been  a  daughter.  His  death  occurred 
April  8,  \69\.  Boston  Rec.  Com..,  ix.  199. 

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Mather  (of  Ireland),  and  one  of  John  Corbet.  Of  Brun- 
ning  Dunton  says: 

He  is  a  man  that's  scrupulously  just,  plain  in  his  cloaths, 
and  upright  in  his  Dealing:  And  so  exact  therein,  that  he 
wou'd  not  wrong  a  man  of  the  hundredth  part  of  a  Farthing 
if  he  knew  it,  and  so  very  careful  that  nothing  can  escape  his 
knowledge :  and  so  well  vers'd  in  the  knowledge  of  all  sorts 
of  Books,  that  he  may  well  be  stil'd,  A  Compleat  Bookseller. 
He  was  more  generous  than  to  decry  whatever  Book  he  sees, 
sowerly  because  't  was  not  of  his  own  Printing.  ...  he  valu'd 
a  good  Book,  who-ever  printed  it ;  nor  wou'd  he  praise  an  Idle 
Pamphlet  tho'  it  shou'd  happen  to  be  done  for  him.  He  was 
my  Partner  in  Printing  Mr.  Mather's  and  Mr.  Moody's  Ser- 
mon on  condemned  Morgan.^ 

Dunton  makes  a  reference  to  a  somewhat  shadowy 
bookseller  in  Boston — Andrew  Thorncomb — *' mu- 
sical Thorncomb*' — of  whom  httle  is  known.  In  1683 
he  was  certainly  in  London,  and  entered  on  the  Sta- 
tioners' Registers  titles  of  two  publications  in  1683  and 
1 684.  One  of  them  was  Profit  and  Pleasure  united,  or 
The  Husbandman  s  Magazine,  by  a  writer  as  yet  uni- 
dentified ;  ^  and  the  other,  The  Tongue  Combatants  or 
a  dialogue  betweene  a  comicall  corajous  country  grazier 
and  a  London  Bull,  Feathd  talkative  tongue  wife.^  The 

1  Dunton 's  Letters  (Prince  Society),  79.  Matthew  Wotton,  bookseller  of 
London,  in  1 689,  sent  to  Brunning  by  Samuel  Sewall,  twenty-five  copies  of 
¥\2cve\\'s  England's  Duty  under  the  present  Gospel  Liberty,  "the  Sale  of  which 
in  N.  E.  I  [Sewall]  am  to  warrant,  if  I  doe  well  get  there ;  not  else."  Sewall, 
Diary  ^  1.284.  One  of  these  books  he  certainly  gave  to  John  Eliot.  Ibid.  ,312. 
^  Stationers'  Registers,  m.  2 '17;  Term  Catalogues,  n.  63. 

^  Dunton's  Letters  (Prince  Society),  88.  "Feathd"  is  not  in  any  Dictionary 
at  my  command,  and  while  it  suggests  "Fathead,"  the  earliest  use  of  that 
word  given  by  the  English  Historical  Dictionary  is  1842. 

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former  was  sold  by  Samuel  Lee  at  the  Feathers  in 
Lumbard  Street.  Why  Thorncomb  did  not  sell  the 
book  at  his  own  shop  on  London  Bridge  is  not  to  be 
explained.  Dun  ton's  charafter  of  him  sounds  like  a  bor- 
rowed one,  yet  probably  suggests  the  man,  as  does 
The  Tongue  Combatants,  He  came  to  Boston  in  Sep- 
tember, 1685.^ 

Dunton  also  mentions  Duncan  Campbell  as  a  book- 
seller in  Boston,  though  Evans  does  not  place  him  until 
1690,  when  he  was  at  the  Dock-Head  over  against  the 
Conduit.^  Of  Usher  Dunton  says:  "  He's  very  rich,  and 
Merchandizes;  very  witty;  and  has  got  a  great  Estate 
by  Bookselling.  He  proposed  to  me  the  buying  my  whole 
Venture;  but  yet  wou'd  give  but  ^30  per  cent,  which 
would  not  do  with  me  by  a  great  deal. ''^  Of  other  book- 
sellers in  Boston  at  the  time  of  his  visit  Dunton  is  silent, 
and  Evans  gives  only  one  additional  name — Obadiah 
Gill.^ 

In  spite  of  his  decided  tendency  to  criticise,  Dunton's 
account  of  the  members  of  his  craft  would  naturally 
be  favorable,  if  possible;  but  he  is  not  specific  enough 
on  each  one  to  permit  conje6ture  on  his  standing.  The 
booksellers'  shops  would  be  places  of  resort,  just  as 
the  taverns  or  exchanges  were,  with  a  difference.  The 
Mathers  would  not  haunt  the  taverns,  but  they  would 

^  Littlefield,  Early  Boston  Booksellers^  137. 

^  See  also  Dunton's  Letters  (Prince  Society),  80 n. 

^  Ibid.^  78,  where  there  is  an  excellent  note  on  Usher's  career. 

*  On  all  of  these  booksellere  Littlefield  has  gathered  infomiation  in  his  Early 
Boston  Booksellers^  printed  in  1900,  by  the  Club  of  Odd  Volumes,  Boston. 

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a  bookseller's,  and  in  1690  Harris  received  a  license 
to  sell ''  Coffee,  Tee  and  Chucaletto."  ^  A  woman  could 
go  to  his  shop,  but  the  inn  would  not  be  free  to  her. 
The  position  of  publisher  was  socially  more  important 
than  that  of  bookseller,  and  the  official  printer  to  the 
colony,  although  he  might  find  it  difficult  to  meet  the 
wishes  of  his  employers  and  to  colleft  his  at  times  in- 
adequate charges,  had  a  position  of  importance  in  the 
community,  albeit  one  of  little  profit  to  himself.  Even  if 
he  had  been  fined  and  reprimanded  by  the  authorities 
his  position  was  not  changed,  and  his  shop  retained 
its  popularity.  No  account  current  between  author  and 
bookseller  in  Boston  at  the  time  now  being  considered 
is  known  to  me ;  but  Cotton  Mather,  who  hovered  round 
the  bookshops  desiring  to  have  his  matter  put  to  press, 
makes  no  mention  of  any  returns  or  "  royalties. '' If  som e 
one  paid  the  expenses  of  printing,  he  was  satisfied  with 
copies  of  the  publication  for  distribution. 

The  tax-list  of  1687  supplies  a  measure  of  compari- 
son among  the  booksellers.  The  rate  was  twenty  pence 
on  each  head,  and  one  penny  on  every  pound  of  real 
and  personal  estate.^  The  following  will  show  what 
each  one  was  assessed: 


^  Boston  Rec.  Com.,  vii.  204.  His  shop  was  already  known  as  the  London 
Coffee-House  in  King  Street.  The  license  was  directed  to  be  issued  August 
29,  1690,  and  one  month  later,  on  September  25,  Harris  committed  the 
indiscretion  of  issuing  witholit  permission  the  first  number  of  Public  Occur- 
rences, so  immediately  suppressed  by  the  Governor  and  Council. 

^  Those  had  been  the  rates  since  1680,  when  the  total  valuation  for  the  town 
was  £23,877.  105.  Ibid.,  140. 

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JVame 

John  Allen  ^ 

Heads 

1 

Housing, 
etc. 

2 

Trade  or 
Estate 

Estimated 
FMate^ 

Tax 
Paid 

Joseph  Brunning 

1 

6 

10 

^16. 

%S. 

Duncan  Campbell 

1 

8^ 

5 

/13. 

2s,9d, 

Obadiah  Gill 

3 

5 

7 

£\^. 

6^. 

Ben.  Harris 

1 

10 

6 

;^16. 

3^. 

Richard  Wilkins 

1 

5 

10 

^15. 

2sAld, 

A  New  England  Primer 

There  is  one  sentence  on  list  No.  i  which  may  well  draw 
our  attention.  Writing  in  April,  1685,  Chiswell  says: 
"There  is  not  one  New  England  Primmer  in  London, 
if  they  will  Take  of  Ten  Grose  and  send  ouer  a  book 
to  print  it  by,  they  may  be  furnished,  less  then  that 
Number  will  not  Answer  the  Charge."  A  New  Eng- 
land Primer  sought  in  London,  as  if  it  were  a  known 
publication;  and  a  proposition  made  to  print  it  there 
from  a  copy  sent  over  from  New  England — do  these 
fa6ls  so  contradi6l  one  another  as  to  deprive  us  of  the 
surprise  at  being  called  on  to  believe  in  the  existence 
of  a  New  England  Primer  anywhere  in  the  early  part 
of  1685,  or  even  earlier.^  For  the  authorship  of  that 
primer  has  been  assigned  to  Benjamin  Harris,  who  came 
to  Boston  in  1686;  the  time  of  the  first  issue  has  been 
assumed  to  be  between  1687  and  1690,"^  and  the  place 

^  My  own  estimate  of  estate,  after  deducting  what  was  paid  on  polls. 

^  The  absence  of  any  figure  in  the  "  trade"  column  may  indicate  that  this 
was  not  the  printer,  but  another  of  the  same  name. 

^  Eight  acres. 

*  See  Paul  L.  Ford,  The  New  England  Primer^  16. 

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of  issue,  Boston.  Yet  here  is  the  precise  title  ''New  Eng- 
land Primer''  given  in  1685,  and  in  London.  In  Usher's 
letter  to  his  agent  containing  the  order  the  necessary 
explanation  might  have  been  given ;  and  the  absence  of 
any  mention  of  the  Primer  in  any  subsequent  list  tends 
to  show  that  no  London  edition  was  made  on  the  sugges- 
tion of  Chiswell.  Yet  the  title  "  New  England  Primer" 
must  stand  in  April  as  a  source  of  surprise  and  specu- 
lation. Fortunately  the  doubt  may  in  part  be  cleared. 
The  Stationers'  Registers ,  under  date  061:ober  5 , 1 68  3 , 
offer  an  explanation  which  does  not  fully  explain.  Mas- 
ter John  Gaine  then  entered  a  "  booke  or  coppy  enti- 
tuled  The  New  England  primer,  or.  Milk  for  babes," 
paying  the  usual  fee  of  "  vj  d.*'  for  the  entry. ^  The  sub- 
title'' Milk  for  babes  "  was  well  known  in  England  early 
in  the  seventeenth  century  through  William  Crashaw's 
catechism  of  that  name,  a  work  appearing  in  six  editions 
between  1617  and  1633.^  Eight  years  later,  in  1641, 
appeared  Hugh  Peter's  Milke  for  Babes,  and  Meat  for 
Men,d\so  printed  in  London.  In  1646  John  Cotton's  cat- 
echism. Milk  for  Babes,  came  from  the  press  of  J.  Coe, 
and  was  sold  by  Henry  Overton.  Hezekiah  Usher  pub- 
lished an  edition  of  Cotton's  work  in  Massachusetts  in 
1656,  from  Samuel  Green's  types.  Certainly  until  1670 
this  catechism  was  current  in  London,  and  Prince  notes 
a  Boston  edition  probably  as  late  as  1690,  when  it  was 
incorporated  into  the  New  England  Primer. 

^  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  m.  199. 

^  Eames,  Early  New  England  Catechisms,  to  whom  I  am  indebted  for  facts 
on  these  catechisms. 

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Who  was  this  "  Master  John  Gaine  "  who  thus  holds 
the  first  claim  to  the  title  Jfew  England  Primer?  He 
must  have  been  a  member  of  the  Stationers'  Company, 
for  he  is  styled  ''master/'  and  presumably  was  a  book- 
seller but  without  a  known  place  of  business.  His  name 
does  not  appear  in  the  Term  Catalogues,  and  it  occurs 
in  the  Stationers'  Registers  so  infrequently  as  to  suggest 
an  unenterprising  publisher.  In  December,  1679, he  en- 
tered Theophilus'  The  Christian  IVarf  are ,  being  some  seri- 
ous, humble,  and pradlicall  rejledtions  on  the  1 5  Psalm ;'^ 
in  1683,  A  Token  for  shipp  boys;  ^  and  in  the  same  year 
An  Apologie  for  God's  Worship  both  in  the  purity  of  the 
one  and  the  liberty  of  the  other ^  and  The  New  England 
Primer.  Four  years  pass  before  his  name  is  again  re- 
corded, when  in  1687  he  issued  R.  Franck's  Phyloso- 
phical  Treatise  of  the  originall  and  Produccon  of  things. 
Writ  in  America  in  a  Time  of  Solitude.^  On  the  title-page 
of  that  work  he  is  a  printer.  With  this  second  venture 
pertaining  to  America  he  disappears.  Mr.  Rivington,  of 
Stationers'  Hall,  courteously  informs  me  that  a  John 
Gain,  son  of ''Edgar  Ganeof  Shastowe  (^Shaftesbury^, 
in  the  county  of  Dorsett,  Yeoman,"  was  apprenticed 
December  3, 1646,  to  Felix  Kyngston  for  seven  years, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  freedom  of  the  Company  De- 
cember 6, 16.53.  This  was  thirty  years  before  the  entry 
of  the  primer.  Within  eighteen  months  after  the  re- 

^  Stationers*  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  iii.  93. 

"^  Ibid.,  \ 59.  ^  Ibid.,  \69. 

*  Ibid.,  322.  A  copy  of  that  work  was  in  the  library  of  J.  C.  Brevoort,  and 
there  is  one  in  the  New  York  Public  Library. 

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gistration  of  the  title,  an  inquiry  by  so  leading  a  mem- 
ber of  the  profession  and  of  the  Company  as  Chiswell 
yielded  no  trace  or  remembrance  of  such  an  issue.  In 
1 683  Harris  had  been  out  of  prison  a  year  or  more,  and 
his  situation  would  lead  him  to  print  over  his  own  name 
as  an  advertisement  of  his  reentry  into  the  field.  It  is 
hardly  likely  that  he  who  had  only  a  few  weeks  before 
issued  The  Protestant  Tutor  would  have  sought  con- 
cealment under  the  name  of  another  for  a  not  dissim- 
ilar venture  of  his  own,  much  less  so  obscure  a  name  as 
JohnGaine.  Later,  when  safe  in  New  England,  it  may  be 
imagined  that  Harris  may  have  seen  the  possibilities 
attaching  to  such  a  title,  and  deliberately  made  Gaine's 
still-born  proposition  his  own — an  early  instance  of  a 
pirate  pubhsher  on  American  soil.  And  years  after  he 
had  made  the  first  test  of  the  market  by  his  New  Eng- 
land Primer  oJ\  68 7-90, he  published  in  London  in  1 701 
The  New  England  Primer,  supposedly  of  his  own  com- 
position, in  combination  with  Cotton's  Milk  for  Babes, 
apparently  precisely  what  John  Gaine  sought  to  do  in 
1 683.  With  each  fa6l  the  field  of  conjefture  widens,  and 
the  possibilities,  converging  towards  a  common  point, 
seem  to  promise  a  solution,  until  it  is  realized  that  after 
all  we  start  from  nowhere — from  a  mere  title, affording 
no  clue  to  the  aftual  contents  of  the  tra61,  and  fathered 
by  an  almost  unnoted  printer  or  publisher.  That  sort  of 
conjefture,  however  absorbing,  is  most  unprofitable. 
Yet  it  does  seem  strange  that  a  book  printed  by  the 
hundred  thousand,  and  almost  a  household  necessity  for 
more  than  a  century,  should  be  described  thus  accu- 

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rately  in  the  early  entry  by  Gaine  on  the  Stationers' 
Registers,  and  have  escaped  observation. 


An  hidian  Primer 

The  Oxford  English  Didtionary  gives  the  history  of  the 
word  **  primer '*  as  applied  to  an  elementary  school- 
book  for  teaching  children  to  read  and  to  pray,  and  its 
later  restriftion  to  a  reading-book.  In  this  connexion 
may  be  considered  a  question  of  bibliographical  in- 
terest, ahhough  one  not  immediately  conne6led  with 
my  subjeft.  In  1668,  Marmaduke  Johnson,  printer 
in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  stated  to  the  Governor 
and  Council  that  he  had  lately  printed  ''the  primer 
and  the  psalter/'^  This  may  have  reference  to  Eliot's 
Indian  Primer,  which  bears  date  1669,  or  even  to 
Eliot's  Indian  Grammar,  printed  in  1 666.  Neither  con- 
tains a ''psalter;"  but  Eliot,  in  a  letter  of  December 
28,  1658,  says  that  he  has  printed  in  the  Indian  lan- 
guage "Genesis  and  Matthew,  and  a  few  Psalmes  in 
meeter.''^  The  Indian  Bible  containing  the  Old  Testa- 
ment did  not  appear  until  1663,  and  in  the  same  year 
separate  issues  of  a  book  of  psalms  in  metre  were  made, 
the  printers   being  Samuel  Green  and  Marmaduke 


^Dr.  Green,  in  2  Proceedings^  xi.  248. 

^  Eames,  Bibliographic  Notes  on  Eliofs Indian  Bible,  8.  In  1 649  Eliot  had  in 
mind  "to  translate  some  parts  of  the  Scriptures  into  their  [the  Indian]  lan- 
guage, and  to  print  some  Primer  in  their  language  wherein  to  initiate  and 
teach  them  to  read."  Such  a  primer  or  catechism  was  probably  printed  in 
1654,  and  again  in  1663,  no  copy  of  either  issue  being  extant. 

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Johnson.^  A  psalter,  in  metre  and  in  the  Indian  lan- 
guage, was  thus  available  to  Johnson  in  1668. 

In  instances  of  this  kind  supposition  may  run  riot,  and 
what  follows  must  be  taken  only  as  an  endeavorto  reach 
a  solution.  In  the  list  of  five  books  ''lately  printed"  by 
Johnson,  submitted  by  him  to  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil, three  bore  the  date  of  the  year  of  inquiry — 1668. 
One — V'dms  Daily  Meditations  on  death  and  eternity — 
is  known  in  a  copy  bearing  date  1670,  with  no  indi- 
cation that  it  was  a  second  edition.  May  it  not  have 
been  possible  that  when  the  Indian  Primer  was  passing 
through  the  press  in  1667,  the  measures  taken  by  the 
Governor  and  Council  to  control  the  printers  caused  a 
delay,  and  for  that  reason  the  book  appeared  in  1669.'* 
Johnson  was  fined  five  pounds  for  printing  an  unau- 
thorized pamphlet,  a  heavy  punishment  to  be  inflifhed 
upon  a  printer  finding  great  difficulty  in  getting  his  "  ne- 
cessary subsistence,''  ^  and  quite  enough  to  awaken  his 
caution  as  to  further  printing,  if  not  to  cripple  his  pres- 
ent means. 

The  Indian  Primer  was  a  true  primer, containing  two 
alphabets,  the  vowels  and  diphthongs,  spelling  lessons 
of  one  syllable,  and  short  reading  lessons.^  No  psalter 
was  included.  No  one,  however,  would  have  sought  for 
a  copy  of  this  Indian  Primer  in  London,  or  have  sug- 

^  In  his  account  against  the  Commissioners  for  the  United  Colonies,  Septem- 
ber, 1 663-August,  1664,  Usher  charged  for  printing  the  Indian  psalms,  I  3 
sheets  at  <£2  per  sheet,  £26-;  and  9  sheets  of  the  Psalter,  at  205.  per  sheet, 
£9.  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Transactions^  v.  391. 

^  Green,  in  2  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Proceedings^  xi.  249. 

3  See  Eames,  loc.  eit.^  where  the  pages  are  reproduced  in  facsimile. 

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gested  its  being  reprinted  there  by  a  commercial  pub- 
lisher. That  description  of  tra6l  was  financed  by  the 
Commissioners  of  the  United  Colonies  and  the  Corpo- 
ration in  England,  through  whom  any  arrangements 
for  printing  would  naturally  be  made. 


Benjamin  Harris,  Printer 

In  the  same  invoice  (No.  i )  is  a  shipment  of  twenty 
copies  of  The  Protestant  Tz/^or,  which  has  been  regarded 
as  the  ''legitimate  predecessor  of  the  New  England 
Primer.''^  It  was  published  in  London  by  Benjamin 
Harris,  and,  according  to  Dunton,  was  *'not  at  all  rel- 
ished by  the  Popish  Party,  because  it  is  the  design  of 
that  little  Book  to  bring  up  Children  in  an  Aversion  to 
Popery.''  The  title  expressed  this  intention,  for  Harris 
has  inserted  it  on  the  Stationers'  Registers,  June  9, 1 683 : 
The  protestant  tutor,  instrudting  children  to  spell  and 
read  English  and  grounding  them  in  the  true  protestant 
religion  and  discoverifig  the  errors  and  deceitts  of  the  pa- 
pists? An  order  for  twenty  copies  from  Boston,  within 
two  years  of  its  issue,  bespeaks  a  success  quite  unusual 
in  a  class  of  writings  already  numerous  and  of  well- 
established  reputation. 

^  Paul  L.  Ford,  The  New  England  Primer,  16. 

^  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  ni.  161.  It  may  be  noted  that 
Gaine  entered  The  New  England  Primer  about  four  months  after  Harris  en- 
tered The  Protestant  Tutor.  Now  that  the  fuller  title  of  The  Protestant  Tutor 
is  know  by  this  entry,  it  does  not  answer  so  well  to  the  claim  of  being  the 
predecessor  of  the  New  England  Primer.  It  would  appear  to  have  been  a 
work  of  a  more  conti'ovei'sial  character. 

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Harris  had  been  the  viftim  of  his  own  enthusiasms, 
which  had  led  him  into  indiscretions.  Some  confusion 
appears  to  have  arisen  on  his  trial  and  punishment.  In 
1679  he  reprinted  an  anonymous  pamphlet  An  Appeal 
from  the  Country  to  the  City,  etc}  At  any  other  time  it 
would  have  passed  unnoticed  by  the  authorities ;  but 
unfortunately  for  Harris,  the  occasion  supplied  them 
with  what  they  desired — an  example.  The  trial  took 
place  February  5,  1679-80,  and  the  charge  was  for 
causing  a  libel  to  be  printed  and  sold.  To  accept  the 
language  of  the  Recorder,  the  book  was  ''as  base  a 
Piece  as  ever  was  contrived  in  Hell,  either  by  Papists, 
or  the  blackest  Rebel  that  ever  was;''  and  the  Lord 
Chief  Justice,  Sir  William  Scroggs,  echoed  that  "there 
was  hardly  ever  any  Book  more  pernicious  to  set  us 
together  by  the  Ears  than  this,  nor  any  thing  a  greater 
Incendiary;  one  can  hardly  write  a  worse.  ...  T  is 
a  most  abominable  Piece."  With  such  an  introdu6lion 
the  trial  followed  its  natural  course,  having  little  sem- 
blance of  fairness  to  the  accused.  It  was  enough  to  prove 
that  Harris  had  sold  a  copy ;  and  after  a  severe  le6lure 

^  This  was  first  printed  in  a  folio  of  seven  pages,  without  any  printer's  name 
or  year  of  publication.  A  copy  is  in  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library.  A  sec- 
ond issue  in  quarto,  also  without  a  printer's  name,  bore  the  legend  "Lon- 
don, Printed  in  the  Year  Mdclxxix."  The  word  Laopolis,so  curiously  placed 
on  the  title-page,  means  the  "city  of  the  common  people."  The  facsimile 
is  from  a  copy  of  the  tract  in  the  collection  of  the  late  Mr.  Ernest  L.  Gay. 
Probably  the  folio  issue  was.  made  by  Harris.  The  last  appearance  of  his 
name  in  the  Term  Catalogues  before  his  coming  to  Massachusetts  was  in  June, 
1679,  when  he  was  associated  with  Robert  Boulter,  John  Hancock,  and 
Ralph  Smith,  in  printing  a  history  of  the  Popish  Plot.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  358.  From  Boulter  he  may  have  derived  the  suggestion  of  Mas- 
sachusetts as  a  refuge  and  a  market  for  his  skill. 


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by  Scroggs,  who  inveighed  against  Harris,  the  writer 
of  the  tra6l,  and  the  jury  for  favoring  the  culprit,  the 
court  sentenced  Harris  to  pay  £500  fine,  stand  in  the 
pillory  for  an  hour,  and  find  sureties  for  his  good  be> 
havior  for  three  years;  "and  had  it  not  been  for  Mr. 
Justice  Pemberton,the  Chief  Justice  would  have  added, 
that  he  should  be  publickly  whipped/'^ 

The  Siuthor  of  An  Appeal  was  Charles  Blount  ( 1654- 
1 693 ),  younger  son  of  Sir  Henry  Blount,  whose  repu- 
tation rests  upon  his  Voyage  to  the  Levant,  To  the  father 
is  attributed  free  thinking,  and  the  son  early  attrafted 
notice  by  his  sceptical  tendencies.  A  good  Whig,  he 
wrote  some  political  pamphlets,  and  An  Appeal  de- 
fended the  reality  of  the  Popish  Plot  and  regarded  the 
Duke  of  Monmouth  as  the  best  successor  to  the  throne, 
should  the  King  die.  Harris  kept  the  secret  of  author- 
ship. He  printed  at  a  time  when  it  was  dangerous  to 
be  too  outspoken,  when  the  political  plots  against  King 
and  followers  made  possible  such  a  murderous  informer 
as  Oates,  and  made  equally  impossible  the  safety  of  an 

^  A  Short  but  just  Account  of  the  trial  was  printed  "in  the  year  1679,"  in 
a  folio  of  eight  pages.  The  facsimile  is  made  from  the  copy  in  the  John  Car- 
ter Brown  Library.  The  report  is  also  in  the  State  Trials^  ii.  1037.  A  com- 
mon error  supposes  Harris  to  have  had  an  earlier  trial  and  warning,  but  that 
was  not  the  case.  In  1681  Harris  printed  an  anonymous  work  entitled  The 
Triumphs  of  Justice  over  Unjust  Judges^  etc.  It  was  dedicated  to  Sir  William 
Scroggs  by  the  writer,  who  signed  himself  "  Philo-Dicaios."  From  the  con- 
tents it  may  be  assumed  that  Harris  was  not  wholly  without  some  pleasure 
in  issuing  this  tract  of  thirty-eight  folio  pages,  with  its  charge  of  injustice 
on  the  part  of  judges,  and  its  dedication  to  the  judge  who  had  imposed  sen- 
tence upon  him.  The  Bictionary  of  National  Biography  (li.  131)  says  that 
Scroggs  was  "undoubtedly  one  of  the  worst  judges  that  ever  disgraced  the 
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extreme  Catholic  or  an  extreme  Protestant.  Harris 
strongly  favored  the  Protestant  side,  and  from  the"  Sta- 
tioners' Arms  in  the  Piazza  under  the  Royal  Exchange  '* 
he  issued  in  1679-81  a  news  sheet,  Dome  stick  Intelli- 
gence; or  News  both  from  City  and  Country.  Early  in  the 
life  of  this  news  sheet,  January  16, 1680,  the  title  was 
changed  so  as  to  read  The  Protestant  [Domestick)  In- 
telligence, etc.  In  April  something  happened,  making 
it  expedient  to  publish  less  openly  or  frequently.  The 
name  of  the  printer  disappeared  from  the  sheet,  and 
from  April  to  December  only  seven  numbers  were  sent 
out,  but  with  the  name  of  the  sheet  unchanged.  In 
December,  the  storm  having  apparently  blown  over, 
Harris  advertised  his  responsibility,  and  the  paper  ran 
to  April  15, 1681.^ 

The  incident  which  interrupted  the  regular  issue 
of  his  paper  was  his  trial  and  convi6lion.  A  ''news- 
letter'' in  manuscript  of  February  12,  1680,  correftly 
stated  that  he  was  sentenced  "to  stand  on  the  pillory 
over  against  the  Royal  Exchange  one  hour  on  Tuesday 
next  and  to  pay  ^500  to  the  King  and  to  give  sufficient 
security  for  his  good  behavior  for  three  years."  ^  He 

^  "March  26,  1681.  Wheras  the  Anabaptist  stationer  of  London  named 
Ben  Harrys,  in  his  Protestant  Domestic  Intelligence  number  106,  saith  that 
on  (W.)  the  1 6  of  said  instant  were  letters  found  in  several!  places  implying 
a  dangerous  designe  on  foot  to  destroy  the  parliament  here  at  Oxon.  F., 
25  March  (and  that  it  should  be  another  5  of  Nov.),  this  is  to  assure  you  that 
there  was  not  the  least  jealousie  of  any  such  thing  by  the  honorable  houses 
or  others,  but  that  all  things  passed  well  that  day,  and  wee  looked  upon  his 
report  no  otherwise  than  at  a  dog's  barking  at  the  moone."  Clark,  Life  and 
Times  of  Anthony  Wood,u.  531. 

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passed  through  the  trying  ordeal  before  his  own  house, 
meeting  with  a  rather  unusual  reception.  "  All  the  time 
no  person  dared  to  cast  any-thing  at  him ;  nay  one  did 
but  speak  against  him  and  was  in  danger  of  being  made 
the  subje6l  of  the  multitude's  rage."  ^  This  contempo- 
rary writer  rather  discounts  Dun  ton's  statement  that 
Harris'  *'  Wife  ( like  a  kind  Rib )  Stood  by  him  to  defend 
her  Husband  against  the  Mobb.''^  She  stood  by  him, 
but  her  presence  would  not  alone  have  been  sufficient 
to  check  the  natural  impulse  of  a  London  crowd  of  that 
day,  which  rarely  abstained  from  taking  advantage  of 
the  wretched  party  exposed  thus  helpless.  The  rougher 
element  indulged  itself  in  pelting  and  torturing  the 
unfortunate,  feeling  secure  from  punishment  by  his  un- 
popularity and  submission  to  the  law  or  decision  of  the 
court.  To  have  escaped  such  brutal  treatment,  Harris 
must  have  had  the  sympathies  of  the  crowd.  Unable 
to  pay  the  fine,  he  was  thrown  into  prison,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years.  After  being  there  nine  months  he 
sent  a  humble  petition  to  the  Commons  of  England,  as- 
sembled in  Parliament,  saying  that  he  was  like  to  lie  in 
prison  "as  long  as  he  lives,  unless  some  mercy  be  shewn 
to  him.''^  He  was  then  in  the  King's  Bench  prison, 
Southwark,  and  before  his  release  was  reduced  to  the 
utmost  extremities.  It  is  strange,  however,  to  find  that 
his  printing  was  not  interfered  with,  and  he  continued 

^  State  Papers^  Domestic,  1679-1680,  397.  "^  Letters,  143. 

^  The  only  copy  of  this  petition  known  to  me  is  in  the  library  of  Lord  Crawfoixl 
{English  Broadsides,  36),  where  it  is  listed  under  the  year  1 679.  A  more  cor- 
rect date  would  be  1 680. 

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to  issue  his  news  sheet,  and  even  printed  some  leaf- 
lets over  his  own  name.^  When  or  in  what  manner  he 
did  finally  obtain  his  release  from  imprisonment  is  not 
known,  but  the  hard  experience  and  heavy  losses  must 
have  dampened  his  ardor  for  printing.  Only  for  a-time, 
for  his  whole-hearted  advocacy  of  the  Protestant  cause 
again  brought  him  into  trouble  and  disfavor.  His  very 
heat  in  his  controversies  made  him  a  mark  for  the 
scribblers  of  the  other  side,  and  his  wife  suffered.  Her 
devotion  to  him  during  his  exposure  in  the  pillory  could 
not  shield  her  from  unlicensed  pens,  and  in  1681  ap- 
peared two  scurrilous  ballads  dire6led  against  her,  en- 
titled ''The  Saint  turned  Curtezan"  and  "The  Protes- 
tant Cuckold,"  but  intended  to  reduce  his  influence  as 
a  Protestant  printer.  The  incident  may  or  may  not  have 
been  true;  the  occasion  to  strike  at  him  was  not  to  be 
missed.  In  1686  large  quantities  of  two  of  his  publica- 
tions— English  Liberties  and  The  Protestant  Tutor  for 
Children  —  were  seized  and  warrants  issued  against 
him.  Having  tasted  of  judicial  process  and  the  rigors 
of  an  English  prison,  and  unwilling  to  widen  his  ex- 

^  In  the  same  collection  is  a  folio  broadside,  List  ofAbhorrors:  Or^  the  Names 
of  such  Persons  as  were  latety  under  Custody  of  the  Serjeant  at  Arms  for 
Abhorring^  and  other  Misdemeanors^  dated  October  21,  1680.  It  beai-s  the 
following  legend:  "I  do  appoint  Mr.  Benjamin  Harris  to  Print  this,  that 
it  may  appear  to  all  true  English  Protestants,  that  he  once  printed  Truth. 
G.  T."  That  suggests  sarcasm,  and  the  leafbeai-s  no  imprint.  "G.T."  may 
be  George  Tokefield,  clerk  to  the  Company  of  Stationers.  An  "  Abhorror  " 
was  one  who  opposed  the  "exclusion  bill,"  introduced  by  the  Earl  of  Shaftes- 
bury. In  December  of  the  same  year  Harris  printed  a  two-page  sheet,  The 
Circumstances  before  and  after  the  Speech  of  William  Late  Viscou?it  Stafford^ 
who  was  beheaded  December  29,  1680. 

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THE 

Saint  turn'd  Gurtezan: 

OR, 

A  New  Plot  difcov^\l  by  a  precious  Zealot,  of  an  Aflault  and 

Battery  dcfign'd  upon  me  Body  of  a  Sandify'd  Sifter,  ((src. 

Who  in  ker  Hushed' s  dhfemce^  tpitha  Brother 
j^        7)id  often  ufi  to  comfort  one  snother  ^ 

Till  vide-montkid  Crop,  who  it  an  old Itafian, 
TooJ^  hit  Mare  napping^  andjkrprizd  her  StaBign  .• 
Who  *fiead  of  Entertainment  from  his  MiSirii, 
7)id0neet  d  Cudgelling  not  matched  in  hili'ries. 

To  the  Tune  of  the  Qiutken  ^dlai  :  or,  All  m  the  Land  o/EfTex. 


A  I L  in  the  Zealous  City, 
Near  the  Exchange  (o  RoyaJ, 
In  dead  of  Night 
'  Appeared  fiich  a  Sprite, 
Wou'd  make  a  Saint  difloyal. 
Help  Care,  Vile^  Smith,  and  Curtis, 
Each  pious  Covenanter, 
tiow  alat  what  hope 
Of  concerting  the  Tope, 
When  a  Sijler  turns  a  Ranter  d 

A  precious  Goofe-quill  Brother, 
Joyn'd  with  a  Holy  Sifter, 
In  place  of  Mate 
To  propagate 
The  Holy  Seed,he  kifs'd  her. 
//<//,  &c. 

About  the  time  of  Midnight, 

When  th'Saints  arc  Caterwauling, 
The  Youngfter  came 
To  cheriQi  the  Dame, 
While  the  Cuckold  was  a  ftrolcing. 
Help,  Sec 


For  while  her  Fadious  Gaol-bird, 
That  Type  of  Reformation, 
iJiy  doCe  by  the  heels> 
Tlie  flipper  y  Eels 
Lay  in  cJofe  Copulation, 

Help  Care,  Vile,  Smith,  and  Curtis, 
Each  pipus  Covenanter,  • 

li%dt  hopes  have  we  got       ,  ..^ 
TffdefiaitheSham'rlot, 
If  a  Sifter  turns  a  Ranter  ^  •^. 


Betas (hp  Devil  wou'd  have  it, 
The  Devil  of  Lu(l  and  Malice, 
That  night  he  broke  Gaol, " 
Andboggl'd  her  Tailj 
She  wiih'd  him  at  the  Gallows. 
ft//>Carc^  Vile,  Smith,  j«^  Curtis, 
Each  zealous  Covenanter, 
What  hopes  have  voe  got 
To  defeat  the  Sham-Tlot, 
'        Jfa  Sifter  turns  a  Ranter.^ 

For  at  the  ufual  hour. 

In  comes  the  Clerk  oth'  Quorum  5 
Where  to  fpoil  the  Plot, 
The  Devil  had  got 

-  PofTcflion  long  before  him. 
Help,^c, 

My  faireft  Helen  open, 

Here's  thy  own  loving  Taris  : 
Get  away  from  my  door, 
You  Son  of  a  whore. 
For  here's  di'old  Cuckold  H—if. 
Help,^c 

Then  damn  the  Fafttous  Lubber^ 
To  fpoil  our  Recreation : 

Quoth  H—^is,  what's  there  ? 
"Tis  nothing,  my  Dear, 
But  the  Spirit  of  ReveUtiott 

/Je^Care,  Vile,  Smith,  and  Curti^ 
Ejzch  zealous  Covenanter, 
^^  V     .  Who  mnsd credit  Ben.  T-k, 
•  .  >  '^  Tho  he  fwott  on  a  Book^, 
.  -  That  4  Saint ftjould  turn  a  Ranttri 

Old 


The?»$qcond  Virp 


Old  Pen  who  much  (ufpcdied        '       ' 
Twas  more  then  a  bare  Vifion, 
Began  for  to  peep, 
And  flept  Dog-flccp, 
Till  he  found  the  Apparition. 

The  Covenanting  Brother, 
According  to  Indenture,^  i.    ^ 
With  Ink  in  Pen  ^^. 

Came  there  agen     >*  *•        . 
Next  Night,  but  couM  not  et^ttn 
Help, dec."  ,  ^/i,  •  . 

He  knockt  beneath  the  windpw^ 
.   What  can  you  fleep  (b  foandly  ? 

Open,  my  Dear: 

Quoth  Beft^  are  you  there  ? 
rie  handle  you  profoundly. 

In  Gown  of  Wife,  and  Slippers, 
While  [lae  lay  in  a  flumber, 
Perplex'd  with  cares, 
He  crept  down  Stairs, 
Arm'd  with  good  Cudgel  Lumber. 
Help,  8cc. 

Who's  there? quoth  watchful  Argus: 
'  ris  I  in  longing  paflion. 
Give  me  a  kifi : 
Qiioth  Beit,  take  this, 
A  'J^rydens  Salutation. 

lUlp  Care,  Vile,  Smith,  and  Curtis, 
E^ch  7»ealoMs  Covenanter, 
What  wonder  the  Atheift 

\  / Jbould  turn  Tapift^ 

II  hen  a  Zealot  turns  a  Ranter^ 


What  means  this  ftrangenefs,  Madam  > 
I  mean  to  cool  your  Courage :    ^ 
Take  this,  you  Rogue, 
rie  (end  you.  Dog, 
To  hunt  for  other  Forrage. 
/^/>»&c. 


1  he  Wife  fcar'd  in  the  Buzzlc, 
My  Dear,  what  is  the  matter? 
You'rea  Wh6re, quoth  he. 
You  pre,-quoih  (he,  ^ 

A  V'lain  ^nd  a  Tray  tor.        ^ 


rfc  have  thee  Groui'g'd  by  psxier^  J 
Quoth  he,  at  the  next  L^ure, 
For  proflrating     , 
To  any  things,. 
Beneath  a  Lord  Protclftor. 

Quoth  (he.  Tic  have  |hee  Quarter'd, 
Thou  Scribbling  Fadtious  Felon, 
For  publiffiing 
Again(t  the  King 
Sedition  and  Rebellion.      • 

Help  Care,  Vile,  Smith,  and  Curtis, 
All  pious  Covenanters^ 
What  hopes  have  we  got 
To  defeat  the  Sham-'t lot ^      ' 
,     When  a  Sifter  turns  4  Banter  i 

Have  I,quoth  he,  elcaped 
The  Pillory  and  Committal*  • 
Thfe  Oallpws  and        .      , 
The  Laws  oth'  Land, 
To  be  proclaimed  a  Wittal  ? 

Help,8cc.  / 

What  will  theBloudy  ^lottCTf  •     ' 
Say  ofa  Holy  Brother'        \     y, 
^  — ...'  Wh«ri  wc^ur  fehrcf  ^-i   *,   - . 

Lay  Trapg  and  Shelves 
iTo  Couoterpldt  each  other  ? 
^   Help^&ct,    '  ^ 

^But  now  for  an  Expedient, 
Left  they(bould  usbefpatter, 
We'l  fay  the  Spark's    . 
A  Popi(h  Shark, 
And  that  wiU  (alve  the  matter. 
Help^Uc 

We'l  fay  he.was  aPapift 

V had  lent  to  Fitc  usj . 

So  thou  art  cle^r. 

My  deareft  Dear, 

And  the  Saints  will  ftill  admire  ti^ 

Help  Care,  Vile,  Smith,  and  Curtis, 
,  ,    And  each  true  Covenanter^  .      •  «-i 

What  hopes  have  Tpe  got       »\ 
:,         To  defeat  the  Sham-Tlot^ 
--*5i^  'V  **  ^'J^^  ^^^^^  ^  Rakter  }  " 

.       '«!/  FINIS.         ,»».:» 


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periences  with  either,  he  determined  to  migrate,  and 
came  to  Boston  with  his  family.  Here  he  is  found  in 
1687.  It  would  be  strange  if  his  ''persecution''  in  the 
Protestant  cause  were  not  knowri  in  New  England, 
and  even  have  proved  an  advantage  to  him  in  the  first 
stages  of  his  Boston  life.  Yet  I  find  no  mention  of  his 
coming,  and  he  did  not  set  up  an  independent  shop  on 
his  arrival.  He  was  an  enterprising  printer  and  publisher 
in  Boston,  where  he  proved  his  allegiance  to  the  Protes- 
tant cause  with  greater  safety  to  himself  than  he  had 
enjoyed  in  England.  He  gained  enough  success  to  en- 
able him  to  return  to  England  in  November,  1688,  and 
he  sailed  on  the  same  ship  with  Sewall.^ 


Horn- Books 

None  of  the  London  shipments  contains  so  much  as  a 
mention  of  a  horn-book.^  In  a  Boston  bill  dated  June, 
1677,  a  charge  of  eight  pence  is  made  for  ''one  horne- 
ing  Book  and  paper.''  This  is  beheved  to  be  the  earliest 
mention  in  an  American  book  bill  of  this  once  generally 
used  "book."  The  printing  of  the  sheets  used  in  the 
English  horn-books  belonged,  in  whole  or  in  part,  to 
the  Stationers' Company,  and  because  almost  all  known 

^  "  Benny  Harris  reads  the  2  1  of  the  Proverbs,  which  is  the  first  chapter  I 
heard  read  on  Shipboard."  Sewall,  Diary,  i.  237.  Harris'  subsequent  career 
is  told  in  Paul  L.  Ford,  The  New  England  Prime?-,  14,  and  the  Dictionary 
of  National  Biography. 

^  For  information  on  the  horn-book  seeTuer,  History  of  the  Horn- Book,  1896. 
llie  collection  of  Mr.  George  A.  Plimpton,  of  New  York,  is  the  largest 
known. 

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horn-books  are  of  English  oak, a  foreign  origin  has  been 
claimed  for  those  used  in  the  American  colonies  of  Great 
Britain.  If  that  can  be  established,  the  absence  of  any 
horn-books  in  User's  orders  would  merely  suggest 
that  he  did  not  handle  them.  In  the  Perry  inventory 
there  were  twodozeil  gilt  horn-books,valuedat  apenny 
apiece,  and  thirty-nine  dozen  plain,  valued  at  a  half- 
penny apiece.  This  is  evidently  the  value  in  bulk ;  and 
if  sold  at  six  pence  represented  a  greater  profit  to  the 
bookseller  than  was  customary.  The  small  number  of 
horn-books  found  in  New  England  in  recent  times  do 
not  permit  a  determination  of  this  question  of  origin. 


Bookbinding 

A  sidelight  is  thrown  by  these  invoices  and  inventory 
upon  one  branch  of  book-making.  The  printer  of  that 
day  was  not  a  binder,  and  while  there  were  bookbind-* 
ers  in  London  who  pursued  no  other  calling,  the  book- 
seller had  his  own  binder's  outfit.  This  was  probably 
the  rule  among  Boston  booksellers.  The  books  came 
to  them  from  the  printer  in  sheets,  and  the  edition  was 
stitched  and  bound  in  the  bookseller's  shop,  where 
binder's  implements  and  materials  would  be  necessary. 
These  were  imported  from  England.  Leathers,  except 
the  cheaper  and  cruder  grades,  came  from  London ;  vel- 
lum for  covers  of  account  books  from  the  same  place, 
the  finer  grades  from  Holland.  In  the  Boulter  list,  sent 
"  without  order,"  twenty-two  turkey  skins  figured,  at 
a  value  of  ^4.  8  5.,  or  four  shillings  apiece.  In  Perry's 

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inventory  are  found  such  articles  as  turkey,  calf,  and 
red  sheep  skins,  painted  (marbled? )  paper,  pasteboard 
and  printing  paper,  and  a  box  of  bookbinder's  tools, 
a  binder's  plow,  and  a  sewing-press.  Forel,  a  case  or 
covering  into  which  a  manuscript  or  tra6l  was  sewn, 
was  a  kind  of  parchment  dressed  to  look  like  vellum, 
costing  about  four  pence  a  volume.  In  his  "garretts'' 
were  stored  three  hundred  primers  in  quires  and  three 
other  items  in  the  same  condition,  in  all  probability 
sheets  to  be  bound  as  needed,  for  these  items  had  been 
printed  for  Perry  or  Benjamin  Eliot  in  1699  and  1  700, 
or  shortly  before  Perry's  death.  Sewall  took  special 
pride  in  sending  to  the  College  library  a  copy  of  his 
Phaejiomena''  well  bound  in  calvs Leather" — probably 
a  domestic  produ6l;^  and  he  noted  a  copy  of  Noyes' 
ele6lion  sermon  ( 1698  ),  "the  first  and  only  book  that 
was  then  bound  in  red  leather."^  Who  bound  them.^^ 
In  a  blank  book  which  served  as  a  "commonplace 
Book"  Sewall  has  noted  on  the  first  leaf:  "Samuel 
Sewall,  his  Booke,  Decemb.  29,  1677.  Bound  by  John 
Ratcliff,"  and  Ratclifte  was  the  binder  of  Eliot's  Indian 
Bibles.  He  bound  with  clasps  forty-two  copies  in  1664, 
at  2/6  each,  which  price  he  complained  of  and  "pro- 
fessed," as  Hezekiah  Usher  said,  "he  cannot  hue  one 
it,"  which  sounds  entirely  reasonable.^  The  Corporation 
for  New  England  paid  Samuel  GelHbrand,  a  London 
binder,^  10,  probably  for  the  twenty  copies  of  the  Bible 
sent  to  England. 

^  Sewall,  Diary,  i.  475.  ^  Ibid.,  485. 

'  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Transactions,  v.  391. 

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The  Invoices  analyzed 

The  demand  for  books  by  Usher's  following  would  not 
alter  much  in  three  or  four  years ;  yet  the  invoices  of 
1682  and  1685  offer  some  interesting  comparisons.  It 
must  be  remembered  that  the  earlier  invoice  was  a  Lon- 
don bookseller's  adventure,  based  without  doubt  upon 
his  own  experience  or  on  that  of  his  London  associ- 
ates. Even  with  that  assistance  he  only  partially  met 
the  requirements  of  the  market.  So  far  as  the  two  lists 
are  capable  of  being  classified  they  show  the  following 
summaries: 


LliCtl  1\^0  . 

Ab.  1. 

JVo.  5. 

Religious  books 

223 

311 

School-books 

128 

391 

Bibles,  testaments,  catechisms,  etc. 

178 

55 

Law 

4 

36 

Dictionaries 

5 

3 

Arts:  Navigation 

60 

50 

Medicine 

12 

11 

Cookery 

5 

Military 

5 

History,  travel,  biography 

45 

6 

Romance,  etc. 

160 

6 

820 

874 

The  period  ranks  as  one  of  great  historical  moment. 
England  passed  from  the  Stuarts  with  Roman  Catholic 
tendencies  to  assured  Protestantism  under  William  III. 
France  almost  gained  complete  dominion  in  Europe 
under  Louis  XIV,  but  failed  through  the  general  en- 
mity awakened  by  her  ambitions,  and  standing  alone 
against  Europe,  saw  an  end  to  her  imperial  visions,  and 

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the  success  of  her  bitterest  opponent — Holland — now 
made  strong  by  Great  Britain.  The  Papacy  in  its  con- 
test with  Louis  over  temporalities  and  papal  suprem- 
acy deliberately  favored  the  political  plans  of  William 
of  Orange,  and  the  revocation  of  the  edift  of  Nantes 
( ]  685 )  developed  the  industrial  and  even  the  military 
forces  of  the  enemies  of  France  as  no  studied  policy 
could  have  done.  Wars  and  truces,  serving  as  cover  for 
preparation,  exhausted  the  nations.  In  this  contest  for 
power,  with  its  ever  shifting  details  and  sudden  trans- 
formations, the  printer  vulgarized  his  produft.  History 
existed  only  in  name,  and  the  pamphlet  narrative,  hastily 
thrown  together  by  a  writer  of  little  real  knowledge, 
little  or  no  reputation,  and  of  boundless  partizanship, 
masqueraded  as  reliable  history,  like  the  produft  of  the 
sensation-monger  to-day.  The  Popish  Plot  of  1 679  pro- 
duced many  imitations,  news  sheets  must  live  by  ap- 
pealing to  the  fears  or  the  curiosity  of  their  readers,  and 
the  pamphlet  was  as  ephemeral  as  the  news  sheets. 

Historical  writing  and  biography  were  in  their  in- 
fancy, yet  Plutarch  and  Froissart  and  others  had  been 
translated  into  EngHsh,but  found  no  imitators. The  sec- 
tion of  the  Term  Catalogues  devoted  to  **  History  "  yields 
small  returns,  and  small  as  they  are,  they  did  not  appeal 
to  buyers  in  Boston.  Sir  William  Temple's  Observations 
upon  the  Netherlands  ( 1 673 ) ,  Machiavelli's  Florentine 
History  ( 1 674 ) ,  the  Memoirs  of  Philippe  de  Commines 
( 1675 ),  Tavernier's  Voyages  in  the  east  ( 1677 ),  Bur- 
net's History  of  the  Reformation  ( 1679),  a  second  part 
of  Rushworth's  Historical  Collediions  (1680) — such 

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are  the  more  important  titles  of  historical  works  issued 
in  ten  years.  Almost  anything  could  appear  in  the  his- 
tory class,  from  a  serious  compilation  or  translation, 
an  atlas  or  commentary,  to  the  lives  of  ad  venturers,  for- 
eign novels,  travels  more  or  less  authentic,  and  such 
worthless  relations  as  the  number  of  tra6ls  on  the  dam- 
nable Popish  Plot.  It  is  all  curious  and  informing  to  the 
antiquarian ;  but  it  is  also  somewhat  futile  reading  when 
taken  in  small  doses.  The  appearance  of  an  occasional 
title  relating  to  New  England  compensates  a  search  for 
the  higher  products  in  historical  relation. 

In  the  Term  Catalogues  the  issues  on  "Divinity  ''came 
first,  the  most  numerous  as  well  as  the  most  impor- 
tant. Here  are  found  names  which  were  long  familiar  to 
our  ancestors,  and  which  still  possess  historical  or  anti- 
quarian interest.  The  controversies  over  religious  be- 
liefs and  church  pra6lices,  the  cause  of  division  in  king- 
dom and  commonwealth,  had  not  approached  an  end. 
Charles  II  (1660- 1686)  and  James  II  (1686-1 688)  con- 
tended with  the  Protestant  temper  of  the  nation,  and  the 
press  reflefted  the  difficulty  of  meeting  the  demands  of 
belief  or  conformity  and  the  requirements  of  loyalty  to 
selfish,  obstinate,  and  self-indulgent  monarchs. 

In  religious  writings  the  taste  remained  unchanged. 
The  occurrence  of  such  names  as  Flavell,  Fox,  Baxter, 
Doolittle,  Calamy,  and  Owen,  popular  on  both  sides  ' 
of  the  ocean,  showed  sound  judgment  and  orthodox 
reading.  The  sprinkling  of  deeper  compilations,  like  the 
Dutch  Annotations,  and  such  definite  orders  as  went 
from  Mather  and  Shepard  call  for  the  equipment  of  a 

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Thurfdajj  the  24.'''  of  fulii,  16 $u 

^{ohedbjtheTarliament^ 

THat  all  Primers  formerly  ufed  in  the  time 
of  Kingftiip  in  this  Nation,  be  fuppref- 
fed,  and  (hall  from  henceforth  be  no  fur>* 
ther  ufed  in  any  School,  either  Publiquc  or 
Private,  within  this  Common weahh. 


O^eredby  the  Tarliament^  That  this  "He/olve 
heforthmthTrmtedandTuhliJIjed. 


Hen:  Scobell,  Cleric. 
Parliamenti. 


London^  Printed  hyfohn  Fields  Printer  to  the 
Parliament  of  England.    1^51. 


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scholar's  library.  Given  the  coterie  of  clergymen  in 
Boston  at  the  time,  and  a  list  which  they  would  approve 
could  readily  be  prepared  from  the  Term  Catalogues. 

The  second  large  class  comprises  the  text-books — 
school  and  college.  Some  of  the  favorites  might  go  back 
to  a  time  before  printing  had  set  aside  the  manuscript 
copies,  and  made  vulgar  by  cheapness  texts  and  man- 
uals already  long  tested  and  accepted  in  the  English 
schools.  In  spite  of  the  low  prices,  the  returns  from 
these  text-books, being  certain  and  regular, made  them, 
with  some  vicissitudes  in  fortune,  profitable  undertak- 
ings. As  such  they  early  became  the  subjeft  of  special 
privileges  granted  by  royal  letters  patent.  In  the  com- 
plaint made  by  printers  on  monopolies,  which  Arber 
assigns  to  1577,  it  is  seen  that  privileges  were  centred 
in  the  hands  of  a  few.  These  privileges  concerned  the 
very  books  most  in  demand,  the  printing  of  which  had 
been  common  to  the  Company  of  Stationers — Bibles 
and  Testaments,  law  books,  A.  B.  C's  and  catechisms, 
almanacs  and  prognostications,  Latin  books  used  in  the 
grammar  schools  of  England,  psalters,  primers,  and 
prayer  books.  The  A.B.  C's  and  catechisms  had  been 
the'*onelieRelief  of  the  porest''  of  the  Company  of  Sta- 
tioners; and  almanacs  and  prognostications  the"onelie 
relief  of  the  most  porist  of  the  printers."  The  Latin 
school-books  were  **  the  generall  livinge  of  the  whole 
Companie  of  Stationers."^  The  extent  to  which  each 

^  Stationers'  Registers  (Arber) ,  i.  1 1 1 .  The  grant  of  exclusive  publication  had 
been  the  rule,  but  it  would  take  me  too  far  afield  to  enter  upon  its  use  and 
abuse.  In  1603  James  I  granted  almanacs  and  prognostications  to  the  Sta- 
tioners' Company  forever.  lbid.,u.  16. 

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item  of  the  list  was  or  could  be  made  to  be  profitable 
is  summarized  in  the  paper  by  Christopher  Barker  pre- 
pared in  1582. 

The  Stationers'  Company  found  it  to  their  interest  to 
be  partners  in  such  books,  and  the  long  list  of  entries  on 
the  Stationers'  Registers  made  on  April  26, 1655,  com- 
prising fifty  titles,  included  such  recognized  works  as 
Littleton's  Tenures,  all  Primers,  Psalters  and  Psalms, 
in  metre  and  prose,  with  music  or  without,  the  Confes- 
sion of  Faith,  Kempis'  Imitation  of  Christ,  the  Senten- 
tiae  Puerile s,'dnd  editionsof  Cicero,  Virgil, Terence, and 
Ovid,  Corderius  and  prints  for  the  horn-books.^  Such 
items  would  have  a  large  sale,  and  the  list  includes, 
doubtless,  the  very  editions  ordered  by  our  Boston 
bookseller.  In  the  face  of  the  cheapness  and  general 
acceptation,  American  editions  appealing  only  to  a  lim- 
ited market  could  not  have  been  made. 

Works  on  the  prailical  art  of  navigation  seem  always 
in  demand  in  this  community  so  largely  concerned  with 
the  sea.  Medicine  called  for  thestandard  authorities, and 
the  somewhat  fanciful  cook  and  cosmetic  guides  gave 
place  to  military  science  and  pra6lice.  Law  followed 
a  growing  state,  with  its  inherited  respeft  for  the  sci- 
ence and  its  increasing  litigation,  yet  without  a  blind 
acceptance  of  English  precedent. 

In  the  lighter  vein  of  reading  the  two  lists  show  great 
variance.  London  was  overrun  with  ballads,  chap-books, 
plays,  and  cheap  issues  of  the  press,  foreshadowing  the 
newspaper  headlines  of  to-day.  Dealing  with  an  occa- 

^  The  list  will  be  found  in  Stationers'  Registers  (Evre  and  Rivington),  i.  472. 

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sion — a  public  calamity  like  a  fire,  flood,  or  earthquake, 
a  military  success  or  defeat,  the  execution  of  a  plotter, 
a  losing  leader,  or  a  criminal — they  came  as  near  to  a 
newspaper  "  extra''  as  the  conditions  permitted.  In  pre- 
serving the  story  of  love  and  adventure  these  ballads 
formed  a  kind  of  metrical  history  and  contribute  to 
our  know^ledge  of  the  course  of  English  Hterature.  The 
promise  of  the  title  often  failed  in  the  performance,  and 
a  fair  heading  covered  as  meretricious  a  piece  of  vul- 
garity as  one  intended  to  catch  the  eye  and  pennies  of 
the  buyer  by  suggested  or  downright  obscenity.  Neither 
in  language  nor  in  deed  was  the  period  overnice — rep- 
resenting areaftion  from  the  straight-laced  and  repres- 
sive Commonwealth  and  the  weariness  of  the  licen- 
tious Restoration.  In  this  respeft  the  London  market 
w^as  quite  other  than  that  of  Boston, and  the  cheap  shops 
of  London  Bridge  could  with  impunity  expose  for  sale 
what  in  Boston  would  have  called  down  trouble  upon 
the  shopkeeper.  Boulter's  experiment  in  this  dire6lion 
is  interesting,  and  could  not  have  been  profitable,  for  it 
is  not  repeated,  or  even  reflefted,  in  any  subsequent  in- 
voice. The  popularity  of  Dr.  Faustus  may  have  arisen 
from  the  witchcraft  excitement,  when  selling  one's  self 
to  the  Devil  was  an  established  fa6l;  but  the  very  titles 
of  Joggins  Jests,  Jack  Newbury,  and  the  various  Gar- 
lands of  ballads  seem  to  lose  at  the  entrance  to  Boston 
harbor  any  capacity  for  giving  entertainment  unaccom- 
panied by  the  powers  and  reprimands  of  the  church, 
and  the  more  tangible  discipline  of  the  magistrate.  With- 
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clined  to  frivolous  reading, and  the  London  book-lists  of 
Usher  did  not  encourage  the  cultivation  of  such  a  taste. 
It  would  be  a  pleasure  to  meet  some  recognition 
of  the  period  of  literature  which  centres  round  Shake- 
speare, some  titles  which  would  show  that  the  occa- 
sional reader  in  Boston  appreciated  what  has  come  to 
be  counted  among  the  best  and  greatest.  The  theatre 
naturally  lay  outside  of  the  moral  apprehension  of  the 
good  people  of  Massachusetts,  and  the  severe  restraint, 
self-infli6led  and  willingly  assumed,  of  the  minister  shut 
him  out  from  that  world  of  imagery  and  poetic  expres- 
sion which  his  harsh  style, not  to  speak  of  his  matter,  re- 
quired to  become  humanized.  True,  his  following  were 
not  capable  of  understanding  indulgence  in  good  read- 
ing— the  same  generation  in  England  did  not  show  that 
it  valued  the  richness  so  liberally  offered ;  but  the  entire 
absence  of  the  great  literary  lights  of  the  sixteenth  and 
seventeenth  centuries  contributes  a  depressing  feature. 
With  a  thrill  of  delight  the  titles  of  Montaigne's  Essays, 
of  Burton's  Anatomy  of  Melancholy,  of  Lilly's  Anatomy 
of  Wit  are  found  in  Grocer's  library  of  books,  and  we 
may  speculate  on  the  contents  of  the  four  volumes  of 
poetry.  A  book  of  jests  does  not  prove  him  to  have 
held  too  lightly  the  condition  of  his  soul  and  its  state 
of  eleftion  or  san 61  ifi cation. 


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and  performing  his  part  in  the  political  councils  of  the 
state.  Much  of  a  divine,  much  of  the  scholar,  and  some- 
what of  a  politician,  he  continued  in  the  front  of  aft  ion 
long  after  he  could  excusably  have  retired  from  public 
appearance.  His  son,  less  of  a  divine  and  more  of  an 
awkward  politician,  regarded  the  influence  of  the  father 
as  an  asset  for  his  own  advancement  and  inheritance; 
but  less  capable  in  the  management  of  men,  he  failed, 
and  on  his  father's  death  rapidly  sank  into  a  morbid 
condition  which  put  an  end  to  any  hope  of  gratifying 
an  ambition  for  control  he  may  have  dreamed.  Both 
were  great  readers,  and  each  has  left  a  chara6leristic 
record  of  his  readings.  The  elder  Mather  notes  each 
day  the  condition  of  his  heart — heart  various,  heart 
serious,  heart  serious  though  deadish,  heart  sad,  and 
so  on.  We  do  not  wonder,  for  he  read  much  in  Latin  on 
church  questions,  much  on  prophecies,  mortification, 
and  indwelling  sin,  much  in  the  commentaries,  and  in 
manuscript  treatises  by  the  New  England  ministers  of 
his  father's  generation.  As  an  occasional  dissipation  he 
would  dip  into  Josephus,  or  the  life  of  a  ruler,  but  for 
such  excursions  he  imposed  penance  upon  himself,  and 
rejoiced  in  a  serious  heart  and  probably  a  disordered 
digestion,  instead  of  a  heart  which  gave  out  a  ray  of 
joy  and  peace  and  a  stomach  duly  performing  what 
was  expefted  of  it.  The  food  on  which  he  fed  his  mind 
is  not  inviting  to  us — quite  the  contrary;  yet  it  repre- 
sented the  study  of  a  man  who  inherited  the  best  tra- 
ditions and  practices  of  the  '*  giants,''  fresh  from  Eng- 
lish universities  and  steeped  in  the  controversies  on 

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church  order  which  had  driven  so  many  of  the  strong- 
est to  flee  to  Holland  or  to  emigrate  to  America. 

The  diaries  of  Cotton  Mather  show  a  more  catholic 
reading,  as  he  depended  much  upon  such  reading  for 
his  own  generous  produftion  of  printed  matter,  and 
derived  not  a  few  of  his  titles  from  English  sources. 
An  example  of  his  method  may  be  cited.  He  opened 
Henry  Lukin's  Interest  of  the  Spirit  in  Prayer  and  read 
a  passage  drawing  a  distinftion  between  a  formal  Chris- 
tian, who  has  little  to  do  with  God,  and  a  serious  Chris- 
tian, who  has  so  much  to  do  with  God  that  he  hardly 
knows  how  to  get  away  from  the  throne.  The  words 
were  as  a  rebuke  of  thunder,  as  if  Heaven  had  in  this 
manner  given  him  an  admonition  for  his  own  slothful- 
ness,  lukewarmness,  and  formality.^  This  application  of 
his  reading  to  his  own  frame  of  mind  or  condu6l  was 
an  ordinary  practice  of  the  day,  and  he  gloried  in  these 
self-examinations  and  in  recording  the  results  as  a  sur- 
geon might  become  enthusiastic  over  a  particularly 
interesting  case.  "And  then  I  examined  myself  by  the 
signs  of  a  state  of  nature,  and  a  state  of  grace,  given 
in  Mr.  N.  Vincent's  True  Touchstone;  and  found  joyful 
cause  to  hope.''  ^  In  John  Corbet's  Self  Employment  in 
Secret  he  found  a  code  of  instruftions  which  tended  to 
cultivate  what  was  already  becoming  a  marked  char- 
a6leristic,  his  retirements  into  his  study  and  there  med- 
itating until  he  became  as  it  were  intoxicated  by  his 
thoughts,  thrown  into  a  trance  in  which  he  conversed 
with  angels  and  even  with  the  Godhead,  receiving  as- 

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surances  of  their  countenance  and  special  proteftion  of 
a  most  satisfying  nature.  Not  a  little  of  what  he  writes 
of  these  conferences  with  higher  powers  seems  to  the 
modern  reader  almost  blasphemous ;  but  the  physician 
of  to-day  could  diagnose  the  trouble  accurately.  Mather 
had  grown  up  in  his  father's  library  and  under  his  fa- 
ther's immediate  direftion.  He  early  became  his  father's 
assistant  in  one  of  the  leading  churches  in  Boston,  and 
he  looked  upon  himself  as  destined  to  succeed  his  father 
in  his  service  in  state  and  in  congregation. 

Mather's  reading  was  boundless.  As  early  as  1683 
he  gave  thanks  for  having  a  ''library,  exceeding  any 
man's,  in  all  this  Land,"  ^ — meaning  his  father's  library. 
Three  years  later  he  blessed  the  Lord  for  "my  exceed- 
ingly well  furnished  Library,"  ^  and  he  entered  upon  that 
long  career  of  publication  of  his  own  writings  which 
gives  him  and  his  father  a  unique  place  in  our  bibliogra- 
phies of  issues  of  the  early  American  press.  A  public 
hanging  opened  up  the  opportunity,  and  having  experi- 
enced the  sensations  of  a  successful  publication,  he  be- 
came the  slave  of  printer's  ink  and  printing  paper.  He 
thanked  the  Lord  in  1697,  for  "favouring  mee,  with 
the  Liberty  of  the  Press,  and  publishing  more  of  my 
Composures  than  any  Man's,  that  ever  was  in  America, 
while  I  am  yett  a  young  Man :  and  making  my  Studies 
to  bee  readd,  and  priz'd,  and  serviceable,  not  only  all 

^  Diary ^  i.  77. 

'^  Ihid. ,  1 1 1 .  In  1 700,  among  his  *'  answers  to  prayers  '*  he  names  *'  my  ex- 
traordinary Library,  and  the  possession  of  several  thousands  of  Books." 
Ibid.^  343. 

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over  these  American  Colonies,  but  in  Europe  also/'^ 
Apart  from  the  two  hundred  and  forty  titles  which  he 
countedini7i8(hediedin  1728), he  had  in  1693  laid  the 
foundations  of  two  great  compilations — the  Magnalia 
and  the  "  Biblia  Americana/'  The  Magnalia,  published 
in  1 702,  was  to  cover  the  history  of  New  England  from 
the  point  of  religious  experience  and  special  providence, 
and  has  taken  its  place  among  the  authorities  on  the  sub- 
je6l,  albeit  marked  by  peculiarities  that  discount  its  nar- 
rative and  its  accuracy.  The  greater  work,  the  "Biblia 
Americana,'' was  to  be  a  great  commentary  on  the  Bible, 
and  still  exists  in  manuscript,  a  monument  of  reading 
and  ill-digested  extra6ls  of  unequal  merit.^  Vast  as  was 
his  reading,  he  depended  upon  it,  and  continued  to  pore 
over  his  books  for  suggestion,  inspiration,  and  absorp- 
tion. He  inherited  his  father's  library,  he  added  much 
by  gift  and  purchase,  and  he  left  a  colle61ion  certainly 
first  in  number  and  quality  among  New  England  min- 
isters' libraries.  To  the  bookseller  of  his  day  he  was 
a  welcome  visitor,  even  though  the  bookseller  as  pub- 
lisher came  to  look  askance  on  the  sheets  of  unprinted 
manuscript  which  seemed  to  be  always  with  him.  In  all 
probability  one  of  the  most  gratifying  testimonies  to  his 
influence  was  the  note  in  Gospel  Order  Revived,  printed 
by  William  Bradford  in  New  York,  because  the  writers 
could  not  get  the  sheets  printed  in  Boston,  as  the  press  in 
that  town  was  "  so  much  under  the  awe  of  the  Reverend 
Author  [^Mather], 'whom  we  answer,  and  his  friends."^ 
Samuel  Sewall  started  in  life  on  the  path  of  a  reader, 

*  Diary,  1.228.  ^  For  his  intentions  see  Ibid.  ,230.  '  Ibid. ,  3  r  5  /^ . 

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and  three  years  after  graduating  from  Harvard  College 
was  appointed  by  the  Corporation  "  Keeper  of  the  Col- 
lege Library."^  In  the  time  of  this  charge  Marmaduke 
Johnson  was  named  printer  to  the  College.^  Occasional 
gifts  of  volumes  in  SewalFs  life  showed  a  continued 
interest  in  the  growth  of  the  library.  He  was  not  above 
political  advantage  where  the  stri6t  letter  of  the  law 
permitted,^  and  he  took  a  serious  view  of  his  connexion 
with  the  press.  A  believer  in  the  influence  of  reading, 
he  lent  and  distributed  books  and  tra6ls,  and  of  such 
a6lions  the  Diary  contains  the  record.  In  part  recogni- 
tion for  bringing  his  mother  from  Newbury  by  water 
he  gave  Stephen  Greenleaf  a  "  catechism,  Day  of  Doom, 
etc.,  bound  together  in  a  good  cover.''  *  To  Dr.  Noyes 
he  sent  an  issue  of  Pierce's  press,  a  print  on  the  Law- 
fullness  of  Swearing  by  laying  the  hand  on  the  Bible.^ 
When  in  England  he  sent  in  one  parcel  twenty-five 
copies  of  a  funeral  sermon  by  Cotton  Mather,^  and  one 
of  Flavell's  tra6ls  to  his  cousin,  Mary  At  well;  and  pre- 
sented to  Madame  Owen  a  Mather  sermon,  the  Revo- 
lution in  New  England, and  Kick's  letter.'''  Again  in  Bos- 
ton, in  1689,  he  gave  to  Cotton  Mather  *'two  Duzen 
Books  bound,  viz.  Right  thoughts,  etc..  Sermons  to  his 
Father  Phillips,  and  on  the  Ark."^  In  his  visits  to  the  sick 

^  In  1 689  Sewallsaw  the  library  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  Oxfoixi,  and  noted, 
"may  be  about  the  bigness  of  Harvard.**  Sewall,  Diary  ^  1.  307. 

^  Ibid.,  1,  3. 

'  The  GoveiTior  and  Council,  2  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Proceedings,  xv.  327. 

^  Diary,  I.  223.  ^  Ibid.,  212.  ^  Ibid.,  256.  "^  Ibid.,  266,  267. 

^  Ibid.,  309. 

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he  took  such  refreshing  gifts  as  Willard's  Cordials,^  and 
to  the  father  of  the  young  man  who  wished  to  be  his  son- 
in-law  he  handed  a  sermon  by  Oakes  and  the  funeral 
sermon  on  John  Hull.^  A  note  of  cheer  cannot  be  said 
to  be  associated  with  such  gifts,  but  they  were  stri6lly 
proper  for  the  time,  and  presumably  gratifying  to  the  re- 
cipient. I  do  not  go  on  in  his  record  of  gifts  beyond  1 700 ; 
but  one  occasion  may  be  mentioned  in  contrast  as  well 
as  an  indication  of  his  reading.  On  visiting  Madame 
Winthrop,  whom  he  hoped  to  persuade  into  becoming 
the  third  Mrs.  Sewall,  he  found  her  from  home.  To  pass 
the  time  he  drew  from  his  pocket  Sibbes'  Bowels  Opened 
and  read  until  her  return.  The  book  was  orthodox,  but  the 
title  was  infelicitously  chosen  considering  the  occasion.^ 
He  also  read  sermons — Alsop  on  Scandal,*  Pareus  on 
the  Revelation,^  Brightman's  Commentaries,^  William 
Ames  on  Callings,'^  Allen"  about  the  Good, bad  Angels, 
Death,  Means  of  Grace,  being  given  in  to  the  Cove- 
nant,''^Manton  on  the  Psalms,^ Erasmus, ^^  and  Preston, 
Saints  Support  of  Sorrowful  Sinners.^^  When  in  Eng- 
land he  purchased  more  than  one  set  of  Poole's  Synop- 
sis Criticorum PThdit  he  was  influenced  by  his  reading  is 
shown  by  his  P/i^^wom^w^(  i697),byhis  protest  against 
the  slave  trade  (1700),  suggested  by  reading  Paul 
Bayne's  Commentary  on  the  First  Chapter  of  the  Ephe- 
sians,  and  by  his  increasing  interest  in  an  understand- 
ing of  the  prophecies,  on  which  he  wrote  much  that  is 

1  Sewall,  Diary,  i.  356.  ^  y^/^^^  503.  3  jf^^^^  27I .         ^  Ibid.,  109. 

^lbid.,\\5.  ^lbid.,\53.  "^  lbid.,\9&.         ^  Ibid. ,236. 

» Ibid. ,237.  ^^  Ibid.,  238.         ^^  Ibid.,  239.        ^'^  Ibid.,  286. 

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unintelligible.  On  the  whole,  in  a  literature  which  has  so 
entirely  passed  from  memory,  we  need  not  wander 
far  with  the  hope  of  endowing  it  with  a  lively  inter- 
est. The  titles  of  the  books  speak  for  themselves,  and 
while  they  adorn  the  pages  of  bibliographies,  the  books 
themselves  rest  undisturbed  on  the  shelves  of  our  best 
depositories,  forgotten  save  by  the  special  student  or 
colleftor,  and  still  have  an  auftion  value  quite  beyond 
the  difficulty  of  acquisition. 


Censorship  of  the  Press 

Supervision  of  printing  in  Massachusetts  was  no  nov- 
elty when  Sewall,  in  1681,  succeeded  to  the  manage- 
ment of  the  press  of  John  Foster,  the  first  press  set  up  in 
Boston.  In  England  the  subjeft  fell  under  regulation  by 
decrees  of  the  Court  of  Star  Chamber,  and  the  restraint, 
though  vexatious  and  at  times  disastrous  to  printers, 
had  never  equalled  the  wishes  of  those  in  authority.  After 
the  Restoration  the  policy  was  embodied  in  the  statute 
of  13  and  14  Car.  II,  ch.  33,  which  expired  by  its  own 
limitation  in  1679,  after  some  thirty-two  years  of  oper- 
ation. A  period  of  non-regulated  presses  followed  until 
1 685,  when  the  old  law  was  revived  ( 1  Jac.  II,  ch.  1 7 ) ; 
and  this  in  turn  was  extended  for  two  years  on  its  ex- 
piration in  1692.  Thus  the  year  1694  may  be  taken  as 
the  beginning  of  a  hberty  of  the  press  in  England.  Al- 
though not  subje6l  to  the  censorship  imposed  by  these 
laws,  Massachusetts  in  1662  began  by  law  to  oblige 
*'  copy 'Tor  printing  to  be  officially  viewed, and  licensing 

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continued  to  be  recognized  as  expedient  well  into  the 
eighteenth  century.  From  1681  to  1684  Sewall  man- 
aged his  press  in  form  as  a  monopoly,  for  no  other 
person  could  enjoy  a  similar  privilege  "  without  the  like 
liberty  being  first  granted''  by  the  General  Court.^ 

How  often  and  effe6lively  this  supervision  was  exer- 
cised cannot  be  determined.  The  best  known  instances 
of  examination  and  discipline  were  condu6led  immedi- 
ately by  the  General  Court,^  perhaps  at  the  instance  of 
the  press  censors,  though  no  evidence  gives  the  initiative 
to  them.  Nor  does  the  form  of  license  used  in  England 
appear  ever  to  have  been  adopted  in  New  England. 
Sewall's  press  had  rivals,  and  had  he  been  so  inclined, 
he  might  have  given  them  trouble.  As  to  books  from 
abroad,  there  is  no  reason  to  believe  that  any  real 
supervision  was  exercised  over  their  introdu6lion,  for 
had  there  been,  the  booksellers  would  have  found  it  to 
their  interest  to  submit  to  the  proper  persons  their  or- 
ders before  sent,  rather  than  to  endure  a  fine  or  worse 
punishment  after  the  importation.  The  Boston  book 
market  was  thus  free,  public  opinion  and  self-interest 
being  sufficient  to  check  the  introduftion  of  what  was 
contrary  to  good  morals  or  what  was  unsalable. 

Product  of  the  Press 

The  home  produft  developed  but  slowly, and  naturally 
the  almanac  was  among  the  first  to  appear,  the  most  en- 

^  See  a  note  by  A.  C.  Goodell,  in  2  Proceedings^  viii.  271. 

2  May  19,  1669,  when  Thomas  a  Kempis'  Imitation  of  Christ  was  held  up 

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terprising  captain  of  the  Bay  settlement,WilIiam  Pierce, 
being  the  compiler.  From  1639  such  most  useful  little 
handbooks  appeared,  sometimes  more  than  one  in  a 
single  year ;  and  the  fragments  of  sixty  years  of  pub- 
lication have  been  piously  gathered  by  our  colleague, 
Dr.  Charles  L.  Nichols,  and  reproduced  in  such  form 
as  to  be  accessible  to  the  curious.  The  pra6lical  publi- 
cations— orders  and  laws.  Psalm  Books,  Harvard  Col- 
lege theses,  catechisms — dominated  the  press  for  some 
years ;  the  first  indication  of  other  literary  aftivity  be- 
ing the  eleftion  sermon.^  There  is  mention,  however, 
of  a  spelling  book  in  1 643 ;  but  nothing  could  equal  in 
size  and  importance  of  undertaking  the  Indian  Bible  and 
tra6ls  which  Eliot  and  his  associates  saw  through  the 
press,  hi  1662  Wigglesworth's  The  Day  of  Doom  first 
cast  its  shadow  on  colonial  joyousness  —  never  in  ex- 
cessive quantity — and  in  the  following  year  the  mill  of 
church  government  began  to  grind  its  grist  on  certain 
interminable  articles  of  controversy,  the  ability  of  the 
participants  imposing  more  or  less  conviftion  on  their 
contemporaries,  and  more  or  less  affliftion  on  their 
descendants.  Baptism,  church  membership,  and  com- 
munion supplied  topics  for  quartos  of  modest  size ;  but 
Whiting's  Abraham's  Humble  Intercession  for  Sodom 
took  350  pages  to  develop  —  a  formidable  exposition. 
In  1669  history  presented  Morton's  New- England's 
Memoriall,  long  the  fullest  record  we  had  of  the  first 

^Andrew  McF.  Davis,  in  2  Proceedings  ^m.  Antiq.  Soc,  v.  295;  Evans, 
American  Bibliography^  i. ;  and  Lindsay  Swift,  in  Col.  Soc.  Mass.  Publica- 

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years  of  the  Plymouth  plantation,  and  the  publication  of 
a  somewhat  coarse  work,  the  Isle  of  Pines,  involved  the 
printer  in  penalties  more  than  sufficient  to  compen- 
sate for  his  pleasure  in  nurturing  this  earliest  plant  of 
humor  brought  into  New  England  from  the  more  tol- 
erant mother  state.  It  is  a  tradition  that  the  true  Emer- 
sonian circle  at  Concord  never  laughed  aloud.  Was  this 
a  survival  of  the  severe  repression  endured  in  the  first 
half  century  of  the  Colony }  If  Thomas  a  Kempisknocked 
in  vain,  admission  was  given  to  Old  Air.  Dod's  Sayings  in 
1673,  and  the  choice  made  by  our  ancestors  has  hardly 
been  justified  by  posterity.  Dod's  ''facetiously  solid" 
arguments  in  a  philosophical  debate  won  repute  at  Ox- 
ford, and  the  "Sermon  on  Malt,''  if  his,  as  is  generally 
assumed,  proved  a  ready  wit  without  a  lasting  quality. 
The  clergy  more  and  more  monopolized  the  press  with 
their  discussions  and  occasional  sermons.  The  poems  of 
Folger  and  Mrs.  Bradstreet,  elegies  on  the  dead,  warn- 
ings, exhortations,  and  horrible  examples — we  have 
brought  the  list  down  to  the  period  of  our  invoices,  and 
measured  the  barrenness  of  the  land. 

This  could  not  continue  forever,  and  the  clergy  noted 
with  anguish  how  their  one-time  faithful  following 
dwindled  by  death,  by  division  of  churches,  by  increas- 
ing coldness,  and  by  questioning.  Prayers  were  publicly 
made  against  the  degeneracy  of  the  times,  and  terri- 
ble punishments  predifted  for  a  backsliding  people — 
punishments  certain  to  be  inflifted,  if  only  the  patience 
of  the  predi6lor  could  hold  out.  Bunyan's  Pilgrim's 
Progress,  sold  by  John  Usher,  was  printed  in  1681,  and 

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Cotton  Mather  had  already  gone  far  in  smothering  true 
piety  under  his  flood  of  soporific  denunciations.  More- 
over, the  monopoly  of  the  Massachusetts  press  could 
not  continue.  For  nearly  fifty  years  this  monopoly  had 
been  complete.  An  attempt  to  set  up  a  press  in  Virginia  in 
1 682  was  snuffed  out  so  eife6lually  by  the  magistrates 
that  no  second  attempt  was  made  for  forty-seven  years. 
In  1 685  William  Bradford  began  to  print  in  Philadelphia 
and  in  1693  in  New  York.  What  the  Mathers  were  to 
Boston  printers,  George  Keith  was  to  Bradford.  This 
brief  survey  shows  how  dependent  the  people  of  Mas- 
sachusetts were  on  foreign  reading,  and  offers  a  self- 
evident  commentary  upon  the  lists  in  the  Usher  papers. 
How  did  the  bookseller  cry  his  wares  .^  His  shop  or 
warehouse  would  be  accessible  to  the  townsman,  and 
Boston  was  then  a  town  of  some  seven  thousand  souls. 
A  larger  market  existed  outside  of  that  place — all  New 
England  and  some  in  the  middle  colonies.  Perhaps  the 
extent  to  which  works  of  divinity  ruled  the  bookseller's 
stalls  may  thus  be  accounted  for.  The  ministers  met  in 
councils,  at  ordinations,  at  funerals,  and  on  election  days. 
They  corresponded  with  one  another  on  church  doc- 
trine, giving  authorities  by  chapter  and  verse.  In  this 
manner  they  spread  a  knowledge  of  books  and  excited 
curiosity  and  desire  of  possession  in  others.  Then,  as 
the  sermons  and  tra6ls  were  printed  by  a  gift  from  one 
or  more  interested  auditors,  by  a  subscription  raised 
to  print  and  circulate,  or  by  public  order,  as  in  the  elec- 
tion sermon,  the  question  of  return  or  profit  became 
of  small  moment,  either  to  author  or  bookseller.  The 

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issues  were  given  away  and  the  sales  would  come  from 
a  distance.  Advertising  the  goods  had  not  come  into 
general  use,  though  in  England,  about  1650,  booksell- 
ers began  to  give  at  the  end  of  the  volume  a  list  of  other 
works  to  be  had  of  the  same  shop,^  and  even  to  post 
title-pages  in  public  places.  The  Term  Catalogues,  be- 
ginning in  1668,  was  the  first  regular  issue  of  a  list  of 
recent  publications,  and  gave  Usher  the  opportunity 
of  sele6lion,  and  the  advice  of  his  London  correspond- 
ents played  some  part  in  determining  his  choice.  In  New 
England,  where  the  reading  public  was  much  smaller, 
advertisement  could  have  been  of  little  utility.  In  1683 
Mather  speaks  of  an  "old  Hawker,  who  will  fill  this 
Country  with  devout  and  useful  Books,  if  I  will  dire6l 
him, ''and  he  proposes  to  make  use  of  him.^  Fifteen  years 
later  he  recognized  the  "trivial, but  extensive  way"  of 
sending  serviceable  admonition  into  every  corner  of 
the  land  offered  by  the  almanac;^  but  he  was  his  own 
best  advertiser,  assiduous  in  securing  the  printing  of  his 
writings,  and  equally  assiduous  in  distributing  them — 
as,  in  one  instance,  he  resolves  to  disperse  his  discourse 
Reasonable  Religion,  wherever  he  came, "at  least  after 
the  rate  of  two  per  Week.''* 


The  Perry  Inventory 

That  this  sketch  may  be  more  complete,  I  append  the  in- 
ventory, taken  in  1 700,  of  the  estate  of  Michael  Perry, 

^  Shakespeare* s  England,  i.  230. 

2  Diary,  i.  65 .  ^  Ibid. ,276.  *  Ibid. ,361. 

ceo 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

a  bookseller  and  publisher  in  Boston  from  1694  to  his 
death  in  1 700.^  There  are  the  usual  books  imported  from 
Europe,  many  of  which  are  mentioned  in  the  Usher  in- 
voices ;  there  is  an  extensive  stock  of  stationery  ware — 
ink  pots  and  horns,  quills,  parchment  and  paper,  wafers 
and  binders'  tools  and  materials ;  there  are  a  number  of 
his  own  issues,  notably  of  Mather  titles,  before  and  after 
binding;  and  there  are  school  materials,  horn-books, 
primers,  catechisms,  elementary  text-books  and  slates. 
He  had  in  his  garrets  such  quantities  of  what  has  be- 
come exceedingly  rare  as  to  make  the  mouth  of  the 
best  fed  epicure  in  Americana  water.  Primers  and  cate- 
chisms by  the  hundred,  not  a  single  copy  of  such  issues 
having  come  down  to  us;^  sermons  of  which  the  present 
money  value  of  a  single  copy  exceeds  the  year's  salary 
of  the  preacher;  chap-books  and  moral  essays  which  in 
the  au6lion  room  possess  a  golden  value  far  beyond  the 
moral  service  they  may  have  exerted  in  their  day.  It  is 
a  queer  jumble  of  the  rare  and  worthless,  from  which 
many  a  text  on  the  transitory  nature  of  bookmaking 
reputation  could  be  drawn. 

Looking  at  the  inventory  in  comparison  with  the  in- 
voices, the  interval  of  fifteen  years  had  produced  some 
marked  changes  in  the  book  demands  of  Boston.  Cer- 
tain works,  notably  those  stamped  with  scholarship  or 
with  magnitude,  were  still  imported  from  Europe.  The 

^  This  inventory  has  been  printed  in  Dunton,  Letters  (Prince  Society),  314, 
and  in  Littlefield,  Early  Boston  Booksellers  (Club  of  Odd  Volumes),  1 75,  but 
in  each  case  incorrectly. 

^  The  earliest  known  New  England  Primer  is  that  of  1 727. 

C  63  ] 


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home  or  colonial  market  was  not  yet  large  enough  to 
support  a  bookseller  printing  di6lionaries,  atlases,  clas- 
sical texts,  or  historical  writings.  There  were  English 
text-books  of  repute,  the  merit  or  known  quality  of 
which  as  strongly  recommended  them  as  their  cheap- 
ness when  produced  in  large  numbers,  and  London  was 
still  the  best  source  of  supply.  The  political  interest  in 
the  mother  country,  leading  to  the  revolution  of  1688, 
was  refle6led  in  the  book  trade, and  the  presses  of  Mas- 
sachusetts gained  by  this  natural  protection.  There  were 
political  unrest  too  in  Massachusetts  and  a  "  revolution 
of  1688.''  A  close  comparative  study  of  these  lists  and 
the  issues  of  the  Massachusetts  press  will  show  why  the 
people  were  demanding  a  different  produft  in  1 700  from 
that  which  they  accepted  in  1680,  and  why  it  was  im- 
possible to  establish  a  regular  news-letter  in  the  seven- 
teenth century;  something  well  known  in  England  for 
more  than  sixty  years.  Not  until  1 704  could  the  Boston 
JVews-Letter  become  an  a6luality,itself  a  proof  that  the 
reading  public  of  New  England  was  passing  from  the 
influence  of  the  clergy  that  had  so  long  held  sway  over 
the  book  market. 


The  Book  in  Mew  Tork  and  Virginia 

Usher  doubtless  made  up  his  orders  from  the  Term  Cat- 
alogues, which  were  sent  to  him  at  intervals  by  Chis- 
well.  The  Arber  reissue  of  these  periodical  lists  places 
at  the  disposal  of  the  student  a  good  part  of  the  issues 
made  by  London  booksellers.  To  these  may  be  added 

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the  invaluable  Stationers*  Registers,  now  brought  down 
to  the  year  1708.  That  its  record  of  publications  for  the 
seventeenth  century  should  be  incomplete  should  not 
be  considered  strange,  for  the  religious  and  political 
disturbances  and  controversies  favored  the  unlicensed 
presses  and  encouraged  secretly  prepared  and  circu- 
lated writings,  varying  from  a  folio  to  a  broadside ;  from 
a  serious  essay  on  a  question  of  state  or  of  church  to  a 
scurrilous  and  indecent  ballad. 

By  the  aid  of  these  catalogues  and  registers  I  have 
sought  to  identify  the  titles  in  the  Chiswell-Usher  lists, 
but  have  not  undertaken  to  offer  an  elaborate  study  of 
editions.  Errors  in  identification  have,  without  doubt, 
been  made;  the  interested  will  be  able  to  make  the 
proper  correftions.  My  obje6l  is  to  consider  the  gen- 
eral market  and  not  special  editions.  No  similar  rec- 
ords for  other  colonies  exist  so  far  as  is  known ;  so  no 
comparisons  can  be  made.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  Phila- 
delphia, New  York,  or  Virginia  ( where  no  merchant  or 
trader  dealt  in  books)  did  not  at  the  end  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  equal  Boston  as  a  book  market. 

In  the  Abstra^s  of  New  York  wills  for  the  period  cov- 
ered by  our  investigation  will  be  found  slight  mention 
of  books  apart  from  the  Bibles,  large  and  small,  pass- 
ing as  heirlooms.  In  1674  one  Fordham  gave  to  an- 
other "  the  books  bequeathed  to  him  by  his  father  in  his 
lifetime,''  ^  but  no  titles  are  listed.  Thirty-eight  books, 
"great  and  small,''  valued  at  £5. 10s.  were  found  in 

^  Mstracts  of  Wills  (New  York  Historical  Society),  i.  44. 

I  65  3 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

another  estate  in  1679/  and  in  Van  Rensselaer  belong- 
ings in  the  same  year  occur  ''  about  200  bookes,  quarto 
and  o6tavo,  the  most  of  them  in  Strainge  Languages/'^ 
One  testator  had  two  books  in  his  possession /'one  the 
Commentary  on  the  Revelations,  the  other  the  Christian 
Watchfullness/'  but  the  authors  were  not  thought  wor- 
thy of  note.^  Special  appraisers  were  named  in  1696 
to  value  the  books  of  Rudolphus  Varick,  deceased,  but 
in  the  absence  of  an  inventory,  our  curiosity  as  to  the 
nature  of  the  colleftion  remains  unsatisfied.  Yet  the  in- 
ventory of  the  estate  of  his  widow  mentions  "a  parcel 
of  Printed  books,  most  of  them  in  High  German  and 
forrain  Languages,  and  so  of  little  value  here,  where- 
fore they  are  packed  up  to  be  kept  for  the  use  of  the 
children  when  of  age/'*  Peter  Delanoy,  in  1 696,  left  to 
his  brother  Abraham  '*my  School  books,  and  my  Dutch 
books  of  Divinity/*^  On  the  death  of  Abraham  ( 1 702 ) 
it  is  clear  that  he  dealt  in  books  as  well  as  dry  goods, 
and  the  inventory  mentions:  ''6  Books  of  Evangelists, 
=62.3  5.;  9  Historical  School  Books,  ^3,  4  ^.;  10  Books 
of  Cortimus,  £3.  9  s.;  14  Catechism  Books,  £s,  6  d.; 
32  Song  Books,  £^.6s.;  and  13  Books  of  Golden 
Trumpets,  ^2.65/'^ 

So  in  Virginia, books  passed  by  bequest  and  occasion- 
ally a  colle6lion  of  size  is  suggested,  for  even  a  hundred 
volumes  would  constitute  a  library  of  note.  Bruce  has 
compiled  instances  in  his  Institutional  History  of  Vir- 
ginia in  the  Seventeenth  Century,  and  concludes  that  "it 

1  Abstracts  of  Wills  (N.  Y.  H.  S.) ,  i.  63 .  ^  /^^-^  ^  gg .         ^  Ibid. ,145. 

^  Ibid.  ^261, 272.  ^  Ibid. ,26%.  ^  Ibid.,  3\3. 

c  66  :\ 


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would  be  stri61:Iy  within  the  bounds  of  accuracy  to  say, 
as  a  reasonable  inference  from  fa6ls  already  brought 
forward,  that  the  number  of  colle6lions,  large  or  small, 
existing  in  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  fell  little  short 
of  a  thousand;  and  estimating  such  colle6lions  at  an 
average  of  twenty  volumes,  a  figure  too  low  rather 
than  too  high,  it  would  probably  be  no  exaggeration  to 
assert  that  the  number  of  volumes  composing  these  col- 
leftions,  as  a  whole,  exceeded  twenty  thousand/'^  No 
similar  estimate  has  been  made  for  other  colonies,  so 
no  just  comparisons  are  possible.  The  titles  of  works 
in  the  Usher  lists  occur  in  the  Virginia  inventories,  as 
well  as  works  in  the  Dutch,  Latin,  Greek,  and  French 
languages.  Perhaps  history  figures  more  largely  in 
the  Virginia  libraries  than  in  the  Boston  book  invoices, 
and  certainly  writings  of  a  lighter  and  greater  literary 
charafter  were  more  frequently  found  in  Virginia  than 
in  New  England.  Even  the  clergy  of  the  southern  col- 
ony had  their  pleasures,  and  their  reading  took  color  in 
consequence. 


*  Opus  cif.,  I.  440. 

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Appendices 


A  P  PEAL 

From  the 

COUNTRY 

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For  the  Preftrvation  of 

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Appendices 
I 

The  Grocer  Books 

WHAT  may  be  an  earlier  book  venture  than  any  in  the 
Usher  Papers  is  to  be  found  in  the  Probate  Office  of  Suf- 
folk County.  EHot's  records  of  the  Roxbury  Church  noted  on 
February  2, 1665,  the  death  of  Thomas  Grocer/ 'a  stranger. "  ^ 
His  will,  dated  January  29, 1664»-65,  shows  that  he  was  of 
England,  with  some  unfinished  trading  with  Barbados,  and 
then  residing  in  Roxbury,  at  the  house  of  Good  wife  Parmiter. 
She  was  Ann,  the  wife  of  John  Parmiter,  one  of  the  original 
settlers  of  Sudbury,  and  her  death  is  mentioned  in  the  church 
records,  March  17,  1682-83,  as  ''Old  Mother  Parmiter,  a 
blessed  Saint. ' '  ^  Grocer  had  a  mother,  living  in  ' '  Mary  Mag- 
dalens  Courtyard  at  the  Bottome  of  Barnabees  Street  in  South- 
wark,"  London,  and  a  brother,  John  Grocer,  in  Walson  by 
the  Willows,  Suffolk  County.  A  brother-in-law,  John  Goodall, 
was  with  him  in  Roxbury,  perhaps  associated  with  him  in 
this  commercial  adventure.  On  February  6,  1664-65,  the 
valuers  of  his  estate  returned  the  following  book  items  as  at 
Parmiter 's  house : 

Item  Bookes,  Immortalitye  and  Burtons  Mel- 
ancholy 000  .  17  .  06 
Item  Journey  of  Fraunce  and  Bla  Jelousye  000  .  13  .  00 
Item  a  Booke  of  Jests  white  cover  000  .  01  .  00 
Item  plaine  mans  pathway  to  heauen  000  .01  .00 
Item  Character  of  King  Charles  000  .  01  .  00 
Item  Gentle  sinner  18  great  D  at  Sea                 000  .  02  .  06 

^Boston  Rec.  Com.,  vi.  178. 
""  Ibid.,  184. 

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Item  Cabinet  of  Italy e  and  Cabinet  of  C  000  .  01  .  06 

Itetn  a  paper  %  written  000  .01  .00 

and  then  gave  a  general  valuation  for  what  was  in  Atkinson's 
warehouse,  in  Boston : 

"Furthermore  a  Considerable  number  of  Bookes,  of  seu- 
erall  sortes,  which  time  will  not  permitt  to  apprise  in  partic- 
ular and  therefore  ualued  at  a  guess  or  Lumpe  according  to 
estimation  to  the  summe  of  £56."  This  did  not  prove  satis- 
factory, and  Hezekiah  Usher,  the  bookseller,  was  called  in  to 
prepare  an  inventory  of  the  books.  The  mention  of  a  ware- 
house indicates  that  the  books  were  brought  to  Boston  to  sell; 
yet  the  collection  as  a  whole  rather  points  to  a  private  library. 
In  only  two  instances  is  duplication  to  be  found  —  two  copies 
of  Swinnock's  fForks2ind.  five  of  Sedgwick's  Fountain  opened; 
while  no  bookseller  would  be  likely  to  have  some  sixty-two 
bound  volumes,  several  sermons  in  each  volume,  or  nine  paper 
books  of  manuscripts.  On  the  other  hand,  why  did  Usher  enter 
on  the  inventory  such  curious  items  as ' '  3  84  Books ' '  of  various 
sizes,  "and  120  sticht  bookes "  ?  Were  there  none  of  the  384 
of  sufficient  interest  or  value  to  be  separately  named?  Others 
of  a  value  of  eighteen  pence  are  given,  so  it  must  have  been 
the  character  of  the  volumes  which  led  him  thus  to  lump  them 
in  one  total.  Then  the  "sticht  bookes "  of  still  smaller  value, 
were  they  separate  titles  ?  Grocer  could  not  have  had  his  books 
bound  in  Boston,  because  in  the  inventory  of  debts  due  to  him 
are  £30  from  John  Ratcliffe,  the  binder,  already  mentioned  in 
this  volume.^  Altogether,  the  question  whether  this  was  a  book- 
selling adventure  or  not  must  remain  unanswered.  Usher's 
inventory  is  now  printed  for  the  first  time. 


^  See  page  43,  supra. 


Appendices 

Boston  thejifth  of  February^  1664. 
An  Inuentorye  of  seuerall  Bookes  Belonging  to  Thomas  Grocers 
Estate  deceased  which  were  found  in  his  warehouse  and  are  the 
particulars  which  make  up  the  Generall  Acco  [unt]  of  Books 
which  In  the  Inuentory  is  valued  at  [blank.  It  should  have 
entered  £56] . 

But  being  particularly  Called  ouer  and  ueived  as  well  as 
Could  be,  are  apprised  as  followeth  {vizt) 
Imps.  36  uolumes  in  qrto  bound  up  with  seu- 
erall sermons  at  5  s.  0009  :  00  :  00 
It.  7  uolumes  of  seuerall  Discourses  at  4<s.  0001  :  08  :  00 
It.  4  uolumes  of  poems  at  4<s.  0000  :  16  :  00 
It.  One  Arraighnment  of  the  Creatures  0000  :  03  :  00 

It.  One  Sedgwicks  parable  of  the  prodigall     0000  :  03  :  00 
Parable  of  the  Prodigal  .  .  .  delivered  in  divers  Ser- 
mons on  Luke  xv.  1 1-24.  By  Obadiah  Sedgwick. 
London,  1660. 

It.  2  Swinnocks  workes  of  Heauen  and  Hell 

and  Xtians  Calling  0000  :  07  :  00 

Ovpavos  KOI  Tapra/oos,  Heaven  and  Hell  epitomized. 

London,  1659. 
The  Christian-Man's  Calling :  or,  a  treatise  of  mak- 
ing religion  one's  business.  By  George  Swinnock. 
London,  1668. 

It.  5  Ditto  fountaine  opened  of  sedgwks  0000  :  03  :  00 

The  Fountain  opened :  and  the  Water  of  Life  flowing 
out.  By  Obadiah  Sedgwick.  London,  1657. 

It.  One  Moses  Choyce  at     0000  :  04  :  00 

It.  One  Baxters  Crosse  at     0000  :  03  :  00 

The  Crucifying  of  the  World  by  the  Cross  of  Christ. 
By  Richard  Baxter.  London,  1658. 

It.  One  Scripture  Mappe  at     0000  :  03  :  00 

A  Scripture  Map  of  the  Wildemesse  of  Sin  and  Way 

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The  Boston  Book  Market 

to  Canaan:  or,  the  Sinner's  Way  to  the  Saints'  Rest. 
By  Faithful  Tate.  London,  1 655. 

It.  One  Bucks  treatise  at     0000  :  02  :  06 

The  third  Universitie  of  England :  or,  a  treatise  of  the 
foundations  of  all  the  colledges,  auncient  schooles  of 
priviledge  and  of  houses  of  learning,  and  liberall 
arts,  within  and  about .  .  .  London.  By  Sir  George 
Buck.  London,  1615. 

Item,  One  primrose  Sermons  at  2s.  and  1  ro- 

gers  uineyard  18^.  0000  :  03  :  06 

Six  Sermons  de  la  Reconciliation  de  I'Homme  avec 

Dieu.  By  Gilbert  Primrose.  Sedan,  1 624. 
A  Strange  Vineyard  in  Palaestina :  in  an  exposition  of 

Isaiahs  parabolical  Song  of  the  Beloued ,  discouered , 

&c.  By  Nehemiah  Rogers.  London,  1623. 

Item.  1  Mountignes  Assayes  0000  :  04  :  06 

The  Essayes,  or  Morall  Politike,  and  Millitarie  Dis- 
courses of  Lo :  Michaell  de  Montaign  .  .  .  Now 
done  into  English  by  John  Florio.  London,  1603. 
A  third  edition  appeared  in  1632. 

Item  1  Wilkinsons  sermon  *  0000  :  03  :  00 

Three  Decads  of  sermons,  lately  preached  to  the 
University  in  Oxford.  By  Henry  Wilkinson.  Ox- 
ford, 1660.  Or 

A  paire  of  Sermons.  By  Robert  Wilkinson.  Lon- 
don, 1614. 

Item  Dod  on  the  Commandments  0000  :  02  :  06 

A  plaine  and  familiar  Exposition  of  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments. By  John  Dod.  London,  1615. 

Item  1  Praehes  Emblemms  0000  :  04  :  00 

Erste  Thayl  dess  Podograischen  Fliegenwadels  .  .  . 
darinn  von  Gott,  Himmel,  Sonn,  Mon,  Stem  ... 
und  Wind  tractirtwirdt.  ByStephanus  Praher.  Pas- 
saw,  1614. 

Item  1  Reynolds  Treatises  0000  :  04  :  06 

Three  Treatises  of  the  Vanity  of  the  Creature.  The 
Sinfulnesse  of  Sin.  The  Life  of  Christ.  Being  the 

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substance  of  severall  sermons  preached  at  Lincolns 
Inne.  By  Edward  Reynolds.  London,  1631. 

It.  Sedgwick  on  faith  2/6  one  Moones  Mapp 

2^  0000  :  04  :  06 

The  humbled  Sinner  resolved  what  he  should  do  to 

be  saved :  or,  Faith  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  the 

only  way  of  Salvation  for  sensible  Sinners.  By  Oba- 

diah  Sedgwick.  London,  1656. 

Item  1  Goddards  Messaliana  0000  :  01  :  06 

Miscellanea ;  or  serious,  useful  considerations,  moral, 
historical,  theological.  Together  with  the  characters 
of  a  true  believer,  in  paradoxes  and  seeming  con- 
tradictions: etc.  By  Thomas  Goddard.  London, 
1661. 

Item  1  Swinnocks  Calling  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  Purchase  right  ordering  of  the  Bees  0000  :  03  :  00 
A  Theatre  of  Politicall  Flying-Insects,  wherein  espe- 
cially the  nature,  the  worth,  the  work,  the  wonder, 
and  the  manner  of  right-ordering  of  the  Bee,  is  dis- 
covered and  described.  By  Samuel  Purchase  [the 
Younger].  London,  165  7. 

Item  Barkleyas  Foelicitye  of  man  0000  :  02  :  06 

Item  Bancrofts  epigrammes  0000  :  02  :  00 

Two  Books  of  Epigrammes  and  Epitaphs,  dedicated 
to  two  top  branches  of  Gentry,  Sir  C.  Shirley,  Bar- 
onet, and  W.  Davenport,  Esquire.  By  Thomas  Ban- 
croft. London,  1639. 

Item  Sutton  on  the  11°  of  the  Romanes  0000  :  04  :  00 

Lectures  upon  the  eleventh  Chapter  to  the  Romans. 
By  Thomas  Sutton.  London,  1632. 

Item  1  Symons  sermons  18(/.  1  Ranseys  ser- 
mons \%d,  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  Sydenhams  sermons  18  <i.  1  Bethell  1 8  d.  0000  :  03  :  00 
Five  Sermons  upon  severall  occasions  preach'd  at 
St.  Pauls  Crosse,  and  at  Saint  Marie  in  Oxford.  By 
Humphrey  Sydenham.  London,  1637. 

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Item  1  Celestial  Husbandry  18  c/.  0000  :  01  :  06 

It.  One  grap  per  Eel  and  Canticles  0000  :  04  :  06 

Item  1  Murcorts  workes  at     0000  :  04  :  06 

Several  Works  of  Mr.  J[ohn]  Murcot.  .  .  .  To- 
gether with  his  life  and  death.  [By  J.  G.]  London, 

1657. 

It.  One  Lilly  anatomye  of  witt  0000  :  02  :  06 

It  1  Xtian  man  0000  :  03  :  00 

It  Slater  on  the  Thessalonians  0000  :  04  :  06 

It.  1  Rogers  on  the  Lost  Sheepe  0000  :  05  :  00 

It  1  Hardye  on  the  first  episde  of  John  0000  :  06  :  00 

The  first  general  epistle  of  St.  John  the  Apostle  un- 
folded and  applied.  By  Nathaniel  Hardy.  London, 
1656. 

It  Watson  on  the  Beadtudes  0000  :  04  :  00 

The  Beatitudes :  or,  a  discourse  upon  part  of  Christ's 
famous  Sermon  on  the  Mount.  By  Thomas  Wat- 
son [Rector  of  St.  Stephen's,  Walbrook].  London, 
1653. 

It  Reddings  guide  0000  :  01  :  06 

It  1  practice  of  prayer,  publick  prayer  and 

Fasts  0000  :  01  :  06 

It.  1  Corruption  of  nature  by  sinne  0000  :  02  :  06 

Item  1  Hardyes  sermons  0000  :  02  :  06 

Item  1  Conuersion  of  Solomon  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  Manton  on  James  0000  :  04  :  06 

A  practical  Commentary  ...  on  the  Epistle  of 
James.  By  Thomas  Manton.  London,  1651. 

Item  Dykes  Deceitfulnes  of  the  Heart  0000  :  03  :  06 

The  Mystery  of  self-deceiving.  Or  a  discourse  ...  of 
the  deceitfulness  of  man's  heart.  Written  by  Dan- 
iel Dyke  [the  Elder] .  London,  1615. 

Item  one  Abbot  on  Jonah  3  s.  0000  :  03  :  00 

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An  Exposition  upon  the  prophet  Jonah.  By  George 
Abbot.  London,  1600. 

Item  1  the  Art  of  Lying  per  Jesuites  0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  the  Isle  of  man  0000  :  02  :  06 

Item  1  Golden  remaines  0000  :  02  :  06 

It  1  Society  of  the  saints  \^d.   1  Hoskinnes 

sermons  1  s.  0000  :  02  :  06 

A  Sermon  upon  the  parable  of  the  King-  that  taketh 
an  accompt  of  his  servants.  By  John  Hoskin.  Lon- 
don, 1609. 

It  1  Epicures  Morals  18  ^.  1  Breach  of  Uzza, 

1,9.  0000  :  02  :  06 

It  1  Followers  of  Zyon  0000  :  00  :  06 

Item  1  Newborne  Christian  0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  Daily  obsaeruations  diuine  and  Moral  0000  :  01  :  06 

It  1  Peters  Repentance  0000  :  01  :  06 

It  1  Dawsons  sermons  0000  :  01  :  00 

It  1  Gores  sermons  0000  :  03  :  06 

John  Gore  of  Wendenlofts,  Essex.  A  number  of  sin- 
gle sermons  were  issued  under  his  name,  1 635-39. 

Item  1  spirituall  Motiues  to  a  godly  Life         0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  greens  farewell  to  Follye  0000  :  04  :  00 

Greenes  farewell  to  Folly,  sent  to  Courtiers  and  Schol- 
lers  as  a  president  to  warne  them  from  the  vaine 
delights  that  drawes  youth  on  to  repentance.  By 
Robert  Greene.  London,  1591. 

Item  1  phisicke  for  the  soul  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  King  on  the  Lords  prayer  0000  :  01  :  06 

An  Exposition  upon  the  Lord's  Prayer.  By  Henry 
King.  London,  1628. 

Item  Baker  on  the  Lords  prayer  0000  :  04  :  00 

Meditations  and  disquisitions  upon  the  Lords  Pi-ayer. 
By  Sir  Richard  Baker.  3ded.  London,  1638. 

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Item  1  Treatise  of  Christian  Charter  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  Parthea  sacra  0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  Roberts  sermons  0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  Sinners  Lamentation  0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  Forshell  on  the  Hipocrite  0000  :  01  :  06 

Item  1  Relation  of  a  Uoyage  to  Guiana  0000  :  00  :  06 

Item  1  Rogers  parable  of  the  friend  at  Midnight  0000  :  05  :  00 
The  Fast  Friend ;  or  a  friend  at  midnight,  set  forth 
in  an  exposition  on  that  parable  Luke  ii,  5-1 1  .By 
Nehemiah  Rogers.  London,  1658. 

Item  1  Ditto  on  the  Rich  Foole  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  Treatise  of  Marriage  Rogers  0000  :  02  :  00 

Item  1  the  4  paradoxes  0000  :  01  :  00 

Item  1  Williams  sermons  0000  :  01  :  00 

Item  9  paper  Bookes  of  Manuscripts  0000  :  12  :  00 

Item  1  Plutarchs  Morall  Philosopher  0001  :  05  :  00 

It  One  Addams  on  Peter  Ro  N°  9  0001  :  00  :  00 

A  Commentary  .  .  .  upon  the  divine  second  Epistle 
general!,  written  by  .  .  .  St.  Peter,  &c.  By  Thomas 
Adams.  1633. 

It  One  Doctor  Feadeyes  Bookes  0000  :  10  :  00 

Daniel  Featley  ?  of  many  titles. 

Itein  One  Holey  Court  0000  :  15  :  00 

It  Dr  Halls  Workes  2  uollumes  0001  :  10  :  00 

?  The  Works  of  Joseph  Hall  [successively  Bishop  of 
Exeter  and  Tiverton] ,  in  three  volumes.  London, 
1628  + 

Item  1  Bishopps  Halls  Workes  0001  :  00  :  00 

Item  1  Taylors  Historye  of  Christ  Jesus  0000  :  07  :  00 

The  Great  Examplar  of  Sanctity  and  Holy  Life, 
according  to  the  Christian  Institution,  described  in 
the  history  of  the  life  and  death  of  the  ever  blessed 
Jesus  Christ.  By  Jeremy  Taylor.  London,  1649. 

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Item  1  Taylors  sermons  0000  :  07  :  00 

Item  1  Williams  Religion  0000  :  07  :  00 

The  Right  Way  to  the  best  Religion,  wherein  is 
largely  explained  the  summe  and  principall  heads  of 
the  Gospell.  By  Griffith  Williams.  London,  1 636. 

Item  1  Heywood  of  Angells  0000  :  07  :  00 

The  Hierarchie  of  the  blessed  Angells;  their  names, 
orders,  and  offices.  The  fall  of  Lucifer  and  his  An- 
gells, etc.  By  Thomas  Heywood.  London,  1 635. 

Item  1  Farrindons  sermons  0000  :  06  :  00 

XXX.  Sermons.  ...  To  which  is  annexed  a  ser- 
mon preached  at  the  funerall  of  Sir  G.  Whitmore. 
By  Anthony  Farindon.  London,  1657. 

Item  1  Sandersons  sermons  0000  :  04  :  00 

Robert  Sanderson,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  issued  a  num- 
ber of  volumes  of  sermons.  See  British  Museum 
Catalogue. 

Item  1  Frosts  sermons  0000  :  03  :  00 

Select  Sermons  preached  upon  sundry  occasions.  By 
John  Frost  [pastor  of  St.  Olave's,  Hart  Street,  Lon- 
don] .  Cambridge,  1657. 

Item  1  Mossom  Tripartite  0000  :  04  :  00 

The  Preacher's  Tripartite,  in  three  Books.  By  Rob- 
ert Mossom,  Bishop  of  Deny.  London,  1657. 

Item  1  Jackson  on  Creed  0000  :  05  :  00 

Thomas  Jackson,  Dean  of  Peterborough,  wrote  nine 
volumes  of  commentaries  on  the  Apostles'  Creed. 

Item  1  Reeue  plea  0000  :  04  :  00 

God's  Plea  for  Nineveh :  or  London's  precedent  for 
mercy.  By  Thomas  Reeve.  London,  1657. 

Item  1  Wright  on  the  psalmes  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  German  Dyet  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  Plautus  Happe  0000  :  02  :  06 

Item  26  Books  in  8°  and  12°  with  seuerall  ser- 
mons in  each  Book  0001  :  19  :  00 

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Item  1  Mash  way  to  hop  0000  :  02  :  06 

?  Quaternio,  or  a  Fourefold  Way  to  a  Happie  Life. 
By  Thomas  Nash.  London,  1633. 

Item  384  Books  in  8°,  24°,  at  l^d.  per  each     0028  :  16  :  00 

Item  1  Drunkards  Character  0000  :  03  :  00 

The  Drunkards  Character.  [London,  1646.]  A  sin- 
gle sheet,  folio. 

Item  1  Hall  Contemplation  0000  :  04  :  00 

Contemplations  upon  the  principall  passages  of  the 
holy  storie.  By  Joseph  Hall,  Bishop  of  Exeter  and 
Norwich,  1612-26. 

Item  1  Capels  temptations  0000  :  04  :  00 

Tentations :  their  nature,  danger,  cure.  By  Richard 
Capel.  London,  1635. 

Item  1  persons  resolues  0000  :  03  :  00 

A  Booke  of  Christian  Exercise  appertaining  to  Reso- 
lution. By  R[obert]  P [arsons].  London,  1597. 

Item  2  Bibles  0000  :  07  :  00 

Item  120  sticht  bookes  at  2  d.  per  each  0001  :  00  :  00 

Item  Fullers  Church  History  of  Leath    2  Ful- 
lers holy  state  0002  :  10  :  00 
The  Church-History  of  Britain ;  from  the  Birth  of 
Jesus  Christ,  untill  the  year  1 648.  By  Thomas  Ful- 
ler. London,  1655. 
The  Holy  State.  Cambridge,  1642. 

Item  1  Grosses  Inducements  0000  :  03  :  00 

Item  1  Treatise  of  Fruit  trees  0000  :  04  :  00 

Item  2  short  Cast  in  384  Books  at  l^d}  0000  :  05  :  00 

per  Hezekiah  Usher. 


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II 

Invoice  of  Stationery,  &c. 

London,  \3  May,  1679. 
Invoyce  of  Goods  laden  by  Mr.  John  Ive  on  bord  the  vniti/, 
Mr.  Wm.  Condy  bound  for  Boston  in  New  England  and  goe 
Consigned  to  Mr.  John  Vsher  March 't  being  for  his  proper 


Account. 


lb.      s.       d. 


One  hogshead  ofBooks  bought  by  Mr.  John  Allen  ^ 

as  per  bill  Inclosed  57  .    6  .    0 

One  hogshead  and  one  Bayle  of  Stationers  ware 

Containing 

10  Reames  fine  Dutch  fools  Cap  at  10^  per 
Rm 

20  Reames  Venus  flouerdeluce  at  6^  per  Rm 

10  Reames  fine  Genoa  at  5s  Sd  per  R. 

10  Reames  fine  Dutch  flowerdel  at  7^.  6 

10  Journalls  4  qrs  fine  demy  at  6^.  Od. 

6  Leagers  5  qrs  ditto  at  7^.  Oc^. 

20  Bookes  3  qrs  broad  1  _  ,. 

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64  Long  8's  Books  20  shts.  claspt  at  G^^of  1  .  14  .    8 

36  Ditto  broad  8's  10  shts.  each  claspt  at  5^  0.16.    8 
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III 

Richard  Chiswell  to  John  Usher 
•\jf       1  \r  London^  OctobA  8,  \  680. 

My  last  to  you  dated  Febr.  5.  1679-80  gave  you  the  state  of 
your  Account  by  which  you  were  Debtor  to  Ballance  205/. 
3^.  9}4d.  which  has  been  since  thus  discharged,  vizt. 

I.  s.  d. 
By  money  of  Mr.  John  Ive  June  15,  1680  45-3-0 
By  bill  on  Mr.  James  Eyton  pd.  July  30.  100-0-0 

By  money  of  Mr.  Ive  in  full  pd  Octob.  18  60-0-0 

By  abatement  allowed  0-0-9^ 

205  -  3  -  9% 

which  moneys  has  been  long  with  held  by  you  but  being  now 
paid  I  am  satisfied,  though  I  suppose  purposely  with  held  upon 
presumption  of  hard  usage,  but  all  things  considered  you  had 
no  just  cause  for  it,  for  I  always  sold  you  books  at  as  reason- 
able rates  as  others  paid  according  as  the  market  went,  but 
you  have  made  your  judgment  of  our  accounts  by  things  that 
have  happened  since,  and  so  have  taken  up  a  prejudice  upon 
False  grounds,  as  you  might  have  found  if  you  had  continued 
your  orders  to  me.  For  all  the  books  you  have  had  from  Lon- 
don since  you  left  me  have  been  sent  you  since  the  late  Popish 
Plott  broke  out  amongst  us,  which  is  now  two  yeares,  which 
shook  so  great  a  damp  upon  all  trade  especially  ours  as  has 
occasioned  a  great  alteration  in  prises  and  the  continuance  of 
the  said  Plott  unto  this  day  has  caused  all  books  of  which  there 
are  any  plenty  to  be  very  cheap  of  which  I  have  given  you 
some  instances  on  the  other  side  of  prises  I  can  sell  you  at, 
and  would  have  done  any  time  these  two  years  past  for  ready 
money,  but  did  not  think  it  convenient  to  trouble  you  with  an 
account  thereof  till  such  time  as  you  thought  fitt  to  cleare  the 

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old  account,  the  truth  is,  we  have  been  so  alarmed  with  feares 
of  having  our  houses  and  stocks  burnt  about  our  eares  that 
we  would  be  very  glad  to  putt  our  goods  into  money,  though 
to  loss  in  many  of  them.  And  therefore  if  you  think  fitt  to  send 
your  Commissions  to  me  for  the  future  and  order  Mr.  Ive  to 
pay  ready  money  for  them  you  shall  have  the  books  hereafter 
mentioned  at  the  rates  here-mentioned  and  so  all  others  in  pro- 
portion according  to  the  lowest  rates  they  are  fallen  to  or  at 
any  time  are  or  can  be  sold  at,  and  so  our  Correspondences 
which  by  reason  of  mistake  or  misunderstanding  has  for  these 
two  years  last  past  been  discontinued  may  be  renewed  again 
perhaps  much  more  to  your  advantage  than  to  mine,  and  I 
may  be  really  serviceable  to  your  Interest,  which  I  always  was 
and  shall  be  desirous  to  be  and  to  approve  my  self,  your  loving 

Friend 

Rig.  Chiswell. 


Goldmans  Dict^  11-0 
Littletons  Diet  11-   6 

Newmans  Concord  22-0 
Culpeppers  Physik      1-9 

Dispensat  2-9 

Records  arithmetick  2-0 
Wilds  Poems  0-  7 
Schick  ards  gram  1-4 
Flavels  st.  indeed  0-  7 
Oxford  Jests  0-8 
Brookes  mute  Xtian  0-  7 
apples  of  Gold     0-10 


string  of  pearls    0-   7 


Remedies 

Testaments  Roman 
small 

Roman  large 

ordinary 


1-  9 

0-  9 

1-  0 
0-10 
0-  3 
0-   3 


Construing  book 

Accidences 

Burroughs  Con  ten  tmt  1-8 

Seamans  Kalender       1-0 

[Illegible]  1-0 

Clarks  guide  compl     4-0 


^  Most  of  these  titles  are  in  the  later  invoices.  I  do  not  fill  them  in  here  as 
they  are  a  bookseller's  list,  not  a  consignment. 

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Sound  beleiver 

1- 

-   6 

Quarles  Argulus 

0- 

7 

Flavels  husbandry 

2- 

0 

Latin  Testamt 

0- 

10 

Riverius  Practice 

14- 

•   0 

Gunters  work 

9- 

10 

Heylyns  Cosmogr 

15- 

•   0 

Roberts  Key  of  bible  10- 

6 

Pearson  on  Creed 

9- 

6 

Assemb.  Annotat 

Cassandra 

11- 

6 

1657  in  2  vol. 

45- 

0 

Quarles  Emblems 

3- 

9 

1651 

35- 

0 

Synopsis 

3- 

6 

Erasmi  Colloq 

1- 

8 

Clarks  tutor 

1- 

0 

Wingolds  arithmat 

2- 

10 

Quarles  Fancies 

1- 

0 

Nyes  Gunnery 

1- 

9 

Mariners  Magazine 

11- 

6 

Heerebords  Logica 

1- 

6 

Gurnals  armour 

12- 

6 

Schevelii  Lex.  4to 

12- 

6 

Aliens  Alarm 

1- 

6 

Doolittles  Sacramt 

0- 

7 

life 

1- 

6 

Amesii  medulla 

1- 

■  2 

Vindiciae 

3- 

6 

Baxters  rest 

5- 

6 

Farnabies  Rhetor 

0- 

10 

W  ilson '  s  Dictionary 

13- 

6 

Hodders  arithmat 

0- 

8 

Clark  Martyrolog 

16- 

6 

Metaphys 

1- 

6 

lives 

17- 

0 

Baxters  Call 

0- 

7 

Dyers  works 

1- 

0 

Parismus 

2- 

0 

Farnabies  Ovid 

1- 

4 

Seaven  Champions 

2- 

0 

Fox  of  Time 

0- 

■   7 

Wills  Commonwealth  0- 

10 

Mead  almost  Xtian 

0- 

7 

Fox  end  of  time 

0- 

10 

Bakers  Chronicle 

15- 

0 

And  so  accordingly  many  other  books.  Bibles  are  very  plenty 
and  of  divers  sorts  and  very  much  cheaper  than  formerly  of 
the  true  English  prints. 


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Hay  ward's^  Account 

1682  Mr.  John  Hayward  is  Dr. 

To  1  Pilgrim's  Prograce 

To  1  Sententiae  Puerilis 

To  1  Lattin  Testam't 

To  1  Token  for  Children 

To  1  Pockett  Booke 

To  1  Janeways  Life 

To  1  Psalm  Booke 

To  1  Assemblys  Catechism 

To  1  Sheets  Past  boord 
October    To  1  Construing  Booke 

To  1  Assemblys  Catechis.  dd.  Pri. 

To  2  Greek  Grammers 

To  2  Cord  of  Wood 

To  1  Greek  Testam't 

To  y2  Firk'n  Butter  wtt.  gs  34  li\  , , 

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8  Jan^,    To  1  Nomenclatura 
1682/83  To  2  Writeing  Bookes  att  9  d 

To  1  Inckhorn  dd.  Sam[ue]ll 

1  John  Hayward  is  described  as  "scrivener"  by  Savage,  and  as  "Publick 
Notary  "  by  Sewall,  who,  having  occasion  to  see  him,  spoke  '*  to  him  about 
his  cutting  off  his  Hair  and  wearing  a  Perriwig  of  contrary  Colour :  mention 
the  words  of  our  Saviour,  Can  ye  not  make  one  Hair  white  or  black :  and 
Mr.  Alsop's  Sermon.  He  alledges.  The  Doctor  advised  him  to  it."  Diary ^ 
I.  102.  In  1677hewasappointedpostmaster  of  the  colon  v;  he  died  in  1687. 

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O  Horatius  Flaccus  scholiis  . 
London,  1678. B.  M. 

.  .  illustrata  a 

J.  Bond. 

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6 

13  erasmus  Colloquies 

See  page  123,  infra. 

13  dyers  worcks 

Dyer's  Works,  viz.  I.  Christ' 

s  famous  titles; 

;  or,  a  be- 

1 

:  12  : 
:  15  : 

6 

liever's  golden  chain.  II.  A  cabinet  of  jewils.  III. 
Christ's  voice  to  London,  and  the  great  day  of  God's 
wi-ath,&c.  London,  1675, 1664,  1  670.  Each  part  has 
a  distinct  title-page,  register,  and  pagination.  B.  M. 

22  apples  of  Gould  1  :    2  :  — 

Apples  of  Gold  for  Young  Men  and  Women,  and 
a  Crown  of  Gold  for  Old  Men  and  Women  ;  or  The 
happiness  of  being  good  betimes,  and  the  honour  of 
beingan  old  Disciple.  ByT.  Brookes.  Price,  \  s.  6  d. 
Issued,  in  1 674,  for  John  Hancock.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  I.  182,  336. 

3  Calamys  ark  —  :  12  :     4 

See  page  130,  infra. 

6  meads  almost  a  Christian  —  :    4  :     6 

See  page  123,  infra. 

10  foxes  end  of  tyme  —  :     7  :    6 

See  page  124,  infra. 

3  faramond  3  :  —  :  — 

Pharamond^  Or  The  history  of  France.  A  Fam'd 
Romance,  in  Twelve  Parts.  The  whole  work  never  be- 
fore Englished.  Written  Originally  by  the  Author  of 
Cassandra^  and  Cleopatra.  Translated  by  J.  P.  Gent. 

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Tp  the  Honourable  House  of  Commc^^^s, 
Aflcmbled  in  PtHL  l  i  a  m  e  n  t.  The  Case, 
and  Humble  P  e  t  i  t  i  o  n,  of  Benjamin  Harris 
Bookfeller,  lately  come  from  New-B^gland. 


Jl^T  your  Petitioner  bcir 


tioner  bcina  a  Citkm  of  LnJom^  that  formerly 
Xiv'd  in  Good  Fajhun  zntFRepttte^  hath  not  only  been  focpofed 
'to  the  Indelible  Igmmy  of  Standing  in  the  Fitlory^  before  his 
own  Houfe^nt^x  the  Royal-Etcchatife  j  but  alfo  Confin  a  for  above  "^ 
two  Years  a  Prifoner  in  Executiom  for  Five  Hundred  Ppund  Fine^ 
impofed  upon  hira  in  Hillary  Ten*,  1680.  by  the  Lord  Chief r 
'JHJiice  [  dcrog80,  ]  and  the  reft  of  the  Judgci^i  the  Court 
of  Kingsr Bench  :  And  was  hereby  InevitaUy  reduced  to Ruine^ 
and  the  utmofl.  Extremities  that  could  be  imagined :  And  all  this  for  no  other  Crime. 
or  Ofence^(d  much  as  Alleadged  againft  him  ;  feve  only,  that  he  did  (in  the  way  or 
his  Trade,)  czuk  to  bt  ReprinteJy  and  5^//,  a  certain  Book,  Entituled,    Zxi  SlppCftl 

from  tl)c  Counttey>  to  tt)e  Citp,  fo?  tljt  l?refct\)ation  of  010  cj^ajefl^'jj 
pcrfon,  Libfctr',  l3;opcttp,  anD  ttit  Ptottftant  atligion — 

1 N  vv'hich  Book,  the  only  Words  excepted  againft,  and  charged  as  Criminal  in  the 
hformattPH  brought  againft  him ;  and  u|X)n  which  he  receiv'd  this  Unparallell'd 
'judgment,  are  tliefc,  [  Speaking  concerning  Eledingof  Members  to  Serve  in  Parliament'] 
— "  iVe  in  .the  Count  rey  have  done  our  parts  in  Chufing  (for  the  Generality  }  Good 
"-'Members  to  ferve  in  Parliament :  But  if  (as  our  two  lajt  Parliaments  were)  they 
"  mujl  if  Diffolved,  or  Prorogued,  when  ever  they  come  to  Redrels  the  Grievances  of 
"the  SUBJECT,  -.ve  may  he  Fittyed^  hut  not  Blamed.  If  the  plot  takes  efe^^ 
"  (as  in  all  probability  it  wiU)  our  Parliaments  are  no(  then  to  he. Condemned,  for  that 
"  their  not  heing  fuffered  to  Sit,  occafoned  it, 

AND  befides  all  thefe  Hardfhips,  the  Year  One  Thoufand  Six  Hundred  and 
Eighty  Six,  ( in  the  Late  K's.  Reign, )  proved  more  Fatal  to  him  than  all  the  reft, 
by  reafon  that  there  was  Seized  and  Taken  ftx)m  him  Five  Thoufand  of  a  Book^ 
Entituled,  iCngllll)  LtbtCtieg  :  Or,  the  Free-Born  Suhje^s  Inheritance ;  fetting  forth 
t\\t?ower  and  Privikdge  of  Parliaments,  &c.  And  Five  Hundred  of  another  Book^ 
Entituled,  CDt  19C0tCflant  CUtOZ  fO^CDUUrtlt.  And  befides  all  this,  his  Life  was 
Threatned,  if  taken,  there  being  Warrants  at  that  time  out  againft  him.  And  for 
the  Prevention  of  what  might  &ifue,  he,  with  his  Wife  *and  Children,  were  forced 
to  Fly  their  Native  Countrey,  and  feek  a  Lively-hood  in  New-England  in  America ; 
and  his  Family,  in  coming  over  to  Engjnd,  were  taken  Priftners  in  September 
laft,  and  continue  fo  to  this  Hour  in  St.  Maloes. 

AND  fince  your  Petitioner  has  been  thus  Ruin'd,  and  remains  ftill  in  a  Mean 
Condition ;  and  that  the  Parliament  in  the  Year  i  <$  8  i,  were  Pleafed  to  have 
your  Petitioner  under  Nomination  for  Printing  their  VOTES,  (  tho*  your  Peti- 
tioner did  not  then  Gain  any  thing  thereby,  but  others  went  wholly  away  with 
tlie  Profit,  Sir  William  Williams,  then  being  Speaker^')  your  Petitioner  Humbly 
Begs,  Tlut  this  Honourable  Houfe  would  take  him  into  their  Pious  Confideration, 
fo  as  to  Prcfcnt  him  to  your  Honoured  Speaker,  that  your  Petitioner  may  be 
Allow'd  (now) to F/-i«/  the  VOTES  of  this  prcfent  Parliament,  to  Support  him- 
felf  and  Family,  and  Pay  his  juft  Debts. 

IN  vvhich  your  Petitioner  auures  himfelf,  he  fhall  not(becaufe  Diftreft,)  be  poft- 
pon'd  for  the  Importunities  of  others,  who  enjoying  Profperity,  cannot  prcten4 
fo  much  Equity  in  their  Requefts,  though  they  may  nave  Opportunites.  of  making 
greater  Interefts :  For  he  is  confident  the  Jiilice  of  fo  Wife  a  SENATE,  wifl 
Charitably  extend  their  Favour,  not  meerly  to  thofethat  ftand  Next,  orarempft 
Importunate,  but  to  fiich  as  have  the  moft  .Need  of  them. 

YOUR  poor  Petitioner  is  not  infenfibTe  of  your  manifold  Weighty  Affairs, 
which  much  deterr'd  hira  from  Interrupting  you  with  this  his  private  Concern ; 
but  Hopes  the  difmal  Circumftances  he  hath, been  under,  with  the  afflicting  Comr 
plaints  of  his  Family,  may  excufe  the  unufual  Boldnefs  of  it,  and  prevail  with  ia 
Chriftian  an  Affembly,  to  take  Pitty  on  him  and  them,  fo  far  as  'tis  Juft  and  Reafonable^ 
AND  your  Petitioner  (  as  in  dutv  bound  )  fliall  ever  Pray,  For  your  refpeQivt 
Safeties,  the  Bleftng  of  GOD  on  all  your  Confuttations,  an  Hearty  Agreement  he- 
tiveen  the  KING  and  his  Good  Sul^s,  the  Long  Life  of  His  MAJ|STV, 
the  Prffervatioii  of  the  iproteftant  Religion,  and  our  Ju^  Properties, 


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Appendices 


Printed,  in  1677,  for  T.  Basset.   Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  280. 

4  brooks  ark  —  :     8  :  — 

An  Arke  for  all  God's  Noahs.  By  Thomas  Brooks. 

1662. 

9  norwoods  epitomy  —  :  10  :     6 

See  page  127,  infra. 

15  bybles  in  8°  quires  3  :  —  :  — 

12  Cocker  Cockers  tutours  —  :    9  :  — 

The  Young  Clerk's  Tutor  enlarged.  By  Edward 
Cocker.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ,  i.  263.  The  edi- 
tion was  that  of  1676. 

4  Glasson  of  law  —  :  18  :  — 

The  Common  Law  Epitomized  ;  with  directions  how 
to  prosecute  and  defend  personal  Actions.  Very  use- 
ful for  all  Lawyers,  Justices  of  Peace,  and  Gentle- 
men. To  which  is  annexed.  The  nature  of  a  Writ  of 
Error,  and  the  general  proceedings  thereupon.  With 
a  plain  Table  for  the  easie  finding  out  of  every  par- 
ticular. By  William  Glisson  and  Anthony  Gulston. 
The  second  edition  appeared  in  1678.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  338. 

2  last  part  of  the  english  rogue  wanting 

The  English  Rogue,  continued  in  the  Life  and  Death 
of  {MeritoTi)  Latroon^  and  other  Extra vagants ;  com- 
prehending the  most  eminent  Cheats  of  both  Sexes. 
The  Fourth  Part.  With  the  illustration  of  Pictures  to 
every  Chapter.  Printed  forF.  Kirkman  in  1 67 1 .  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  86.  The  various  issues  of  other 
parts  are  given  in  the  same  volume. 

22  turky  skins  4  :     8  :  — 

2  parismus  —  :     5  :  — 

The  most  Famous,  Delectable,  and  pleasant  History 
of  Parismus^  the  most  renowned  Prince  of  Bohemia; 
and  of  Parismenos.  In  Two  Parts.  Price,  3  s.  6  d. 
Printed  in  1677.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  284. 

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I  destruction  of  troy  —  :    3  :  — 

The  History  of  the  Destruction  of  Troy.  In  Three 
Books.  1 .  Shewing  the  Foundere  and  Foundation  of 
the  said  City,  etc.  2.  The  re-edifying  of  it,  after  the 
sacking  of  it  by  Hercules.  3.  How  Priamus  rebuilt 
Troy  again  after  the  Destruction  of  it  by  Hercules 
the  second  time,  etc.  With  other  things  worthy  of 
Note.  Price,  3  s.  Printed,  in  1 676,  for  Thomas  Pas- 
senger on  London  Bridge.  Term  Catalogues  {Arher), 
I.  230. 

1  Valentyn  and  orson  —  :     1  :  — 

The  Famous  History  of  Valentine  and  Orson,  the  two 
sons  of  the  Emperour  of  Greece,  newly  corrected  and 
amended ;  with  new  Pictures  lively  expressing  the 
History.  Printed,  in  1680,  for  T.  Passenger.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  410. 

4  Goulmans  dictionarys  2  :    8  :  — 

A  Copious  Dictionary.  In  Three  Parts.  I.  The  Eng- 
lish before  the  Latin,  enriched  with  above  ten  thou- 
sand woixls  more  than  any  former  Dictionary  con- 
tains. II.  Latin  before  the  English,  with  correct  and 
plentiful  Etymological  Derivations,  Philological  Ob- 
servations, and  Phraseological  Explications.  III.  The 
Proper  Names  of  Persons,  Places,  and  other  things 
necessary  to  the  understanding  of  Historians  and 
Poets.  To  which  are  adjoined,  A  Table  of  Authors' 
names  which  in  this  Book  are  made  use  of;  and  also 
some  lesser  Tractates.  The  whole  being  a  comprisal 
of  Thomasius'  and  Rider's  Foundations,  Holland's 
and  Holyoke's  superstructure  and  improvements. 
Together  with  amendments  and  enlargements  very 
considerable  for  number  and  nature.  Rendering  this 
Work  the  most  compleat  and  useful  of  any  of  this 
kind,  as  the  Preface  doth  declare.  By  the  care  of 
Francis  Gouldman.  The  fourth  edition  was  printed 
in  1678  for  J.  Hayes,  printer  to  the  University  of 
Cambridge.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  306. 

15  dugarts  Rhetorique  —  :     5  :  — 

See  page  126,  infra. 

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10  Complete  modelist  —  :    4  :    2 

The  compleat  Modelist ;  shewing  the  true  and  exact 
way  of  raising  the  model  of  any  Ship  or  Vessel.  Also 
the  manner  how  to  find  the  length  of  every  Rope  ex- 
actly. Together  with  the  weights  of  their  Cables  and 
Anchors.  Performed  by  Thomas  Miller.  Printed,  in 
1675,  for  W.  Fisher  at  Tower  Hill  and  Elizabeth 
Hurlock  at  the  Rose  at  the  West  end  of  St.  Paul's. 
Term  Calalogues  (Avher)^  i.  224. 

4  Johnson  arithmatick  —  :    6  :    3 

See  page  147,  infra. 

4  ovid  metamorphosis  —  :    4  :  — 

Probably  the  Farnabius  Edition,  printed  in  London, 
1650.  B.  M.  See  also  page  142,  infra. 

4  esops  in  engHsh  —  :    6  :    8 

Esop's  Fables,  with  their  Momls,  in  Prose  and  Vei*se, 
Grammatically  translated,  illustrated  with  Pictures: 
together  with  his  Life  and  Death.  Price,  2  s.  Printed, 
in  1 670,  for  F.  Eglesfield.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  28.  For  another  translation,  issued  in  1676,  see 
Ibid.,  261. 

2  burroughs  on  matthew  —  :  18  :  — 

Four  Books  on  the  Eleventh  of  Matthew,  viz.  1 . 
Christ  inviting  sinnere  to  come  to  him  for  rest ;  2 . 
Christ  the  great  teacher  of  souls,  that  come  to  him. 
To  which  is  added  a  treatise  of  meekness  and  of 
anger;  3.  Christ,  the  humble  teacher  of  those  that 
come  to  him ;  4.  the  only  easie  way  to  heaven.  [Ed- 
ited by  T.  Goodwin,  W.  Greenhill,  W.  Bridge,  S. 
Simpson, P.  Nye,  J.  Yates, and  W.  Adderley.  3  vols. 
London,  1659.]  By  Jeremiah  Burroughs.  B.  M. 

5  Carmicheal  on  mortification  —  :     5  :  10 

Believers'  mortification  of  sin  by  the  Spirit :  or.  Gos- 
pel Holiness  advanced  by  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Ghost.  .  .  .  Whereunto  is  added  the  author's  three 
last  sermons,  on  Gen.  3.15.  [With  a  preface  by  T. 
Lye.]  London,   1677.  By  Alexander  Carmichael. 

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5  mitchells  sermons  —  :    6:3 

A  Discourse  of  the  Glory  to  which  God  hath  called 
Believers  by  Jesus  Christ.  Delivered  in  some  Sermons 
out  of  1  Pet.  5.  10.  Tog-ether  with  an  annexed  Let- 
ter. Both  by  Jonathan  Mitchel,  late  Pastor  of  the 
Church  at  Cambridge  in  New  England.  Price,  2  s. 
Printed  in  1677.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  288. 

8  alleins  allarm  —  :  13  :    4 

An  Alarm  to  Unconverted  sinnere ;  in  a  serious  Trea- 
tise, shewing,  I.  What  Conversion  is  not,  and  cor- 
recting some  mistakes  about  it.  11.  What  Conversion 
is,  and  wherein  it  consisteth.  III.  The  necessity  of 
Conversion.  IV.  The  marks  of  the  Unconverted. 
V.  The  Miseries  of  the  Unconverted.  VI.  Directions 
for  Convereion.  VII.  Motives  to  Conversion.  Where- 
unto  are  annexed ,  Divers  practical  Cases  of  Conscience 
Judiciously  resolved.  By  Joseph  Alleine.  Printed,  in 
1675  and  1678,  for  N.  Simmons  at  the  Prince's 
Arms  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  214,  304.  ^e^  Dictionary  of  National  R- 
ography^  i.  299. 

3  remains  —  :    5  :  — 

Remains  of  that  excellent  Minister  of  Jesus  Christy 
Mr.  Joseph  Alleine;  being  a  Collection  of  Sundry 
Directions,  Sermons,  Sacrament-Speeches,  and  Let- 
ters, not  heretofore  published.  Printed,  in  1674,  for 
Peter  Parker  at  the  Leg  and  Star  in  Cornhill  over 
against  the  Royal  Exchange.  Price,  2  s.  ed.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  169. 

2  lyfe  and  death  —  :  03  :    6 

The  Life  and  Death  of  that  excellent  Minister  of  C%m/, 
Mr.  Joseph  Alleine,  late  Teacher  of  the  Church  of 
Taunton  in  Somersetshire.  Printed  in  1677.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber;,  i.  297. 

5  sincere  Convert  —  :  06  :  10 

See  page  122,  infra. 

9  sound  beleevers  —  :  15  :  — 

The  sound  Believer.  A  Treatise  of  Evangelical  Con- 

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version,  discovering  the  work  of  Christ's  Spirit  in 
reconciling  a  Sinner  to  God.  By  Thomas  Shepard. 
Price,  2  s.  6  d.  Printed,  in  1 672,  for  Andrew  Crook. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  99. 

1  owen  on  the  sperit  —  :  11  :  — 

TrvevfULToXoyui^  or  a  Discourse  concerning  the  Holy 
Spirit :  wherein  an  account  is  given  of  his  name,  na- 
ture, personality,  dispensation,  operations,  and  ef- 
fects ;  His  whole  work  in  the  old  and  new  Creation 
is  explained ;  the  Doctrine  concerning  it  is  indicated 
from  oppositions  and  reproaches.  The  nature  also 
and  necessity  of  Gospel-holiness ;  the  difference  be- 
tween Grace  and  Morality,  or  a  Spiritual  life  unto 
God  in  Evangelical  obedience,  and  a  Course  of  Moral 
Virtues,  are  stated  and  declared.  By  John  Owen. 
Folio.  Printed,  in  1  674,  for  Nathaniel  Ponder.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  1 78. 

1 on  the  hebrews  1  :    2  :  — 

See  page  148,  infra. 

4  person  of  Christ  1  :  —  :  — 

See  page  117,  infra. 

16  boatswains  art  —  :     6  :    8 

The  Boatswaine's  Art,  or  the  compleate  Boats-waine, 
is  mentioned  in  the  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and . 
Rivington),  m.  53. 

2  felthams  resolves  —  :  14  :    0 

Resolves,  Divine,  Moral,  Political.  By  Owen  Feltham. 
Folio.  The  tenth  impression  appeared  in  1 677.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  276. 

1  Cooks  marrow  —  :     7  :  — 

Mellifidum  Chirurgiae^  or  The  Marrow  of  Chirurgery, 
much  enlarged.  To  which  is  now  added.  An  Anat- 
omy, illustrated  with  twelve  Brass  Cuts ;  and  also. 
The  Marrow  of  Physick:  both  in  the  newest  way. 
By  James  Cooke,  Practitioner  in  Physick  and  Chy- 
rurgery.  Price,  8  s.  Printed,  in  1676,  for  Ben.  Shir- 
ley, under  the  Dial  of  St.  Dunstan's  Church,  in  Fleet 
Street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  230. 

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8  Cotton  on  the  Covenant  —  :    8  : 

The  Covenant  of  Gods  Free  Grace  most  sweetly  un- 
folded and  applied  to  a  disquieted  soul.  .  .  .  London, 
1645.  Or, 
The  Covenant  of  Grace,  discovering-  the  great  work 
of  a  sinner's  reconciliation  to  God.  .  .  .  London, 
1655.  By  John  Cotton.  B.  M. 

3  queens  Closet  —  :     5  : 

The  Queen-like  Closet,  or  Rich  Cabinet  stored  with 
all  manner  of  rare  Receits  for  Preserving,  Candying, 
and  Cookery.  Very  pleasant  and  beneficial  to  all  in- 
genuous pereons  of  the  Female  Sex.  To  which  is 
added,  A  Supplement.  Price,  3  s.  Printed,  in  1674, 
for  R.  Lowndes  in  Duck  Lane.  Another  edition  ap- 
peared in  1 6  8  0 .  Term  Catalogues ( Arber) ,  i .  1 9  2 , 4  2  3 . 

4  Winchester  phrasis  —  :  12  : 

See  page  144,  infra. 

16  Cap  of  gray  haires  —  :  16  : 

A  Cap  of  Gray  hail's  for  a  Green  head,  or  The  Father's 
Counsel  to  his  Son,  an  Apprentice  in  London;  con- 
taining wholsom  instructions  for  the  management  of 
a  man's  whole  life.  By  Caleb  Trenchfield .  The  sec- 
ond edition  appeared  in  1 678,  and  a  fourth  in  1 687. 
Printed  for  W.  Leach  at  the  Crown  in  Cornhill. 

2  rarlerys  (?)  remains  —  :     5  : 

2  Clelias  .       1  :  12  : 

Clelia,  a  new  romance,  translated  from  Scudery,  and 
printed  in  four  volumes  by  1660.  Stationers'  Regis- 
ters (Eyre  and  Rivington),  ii.  25,  123,  256. 

13  sellers  navigation  2  :  12  : 

Practical  Navigation,  or  An  Introduction  to  the  whole 
art:  containing  many  useful  Geometrical  Defini- 
tions and  Problems ;  the  Doctrine  of  Triangles ;  plain 
Mercator  2ind  great  Circle  Say  ling;  Problems  in  As- 
tronomy ;  the  use  of  the  Azimuth  Compass,  Ring- 
dyal,  variation  Compass,  the  Forestaff,  Quadrant, 
Plough,  and  Nocturnal ;  the  plain  Scale,  Gunter's 
Scale,  small  Quadrant,  plain  chart,  both  Globes,  the 

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Inclinatory  Needles,  the  Loadstone ;  Tables  of  the 
Moon's  age,  of  the  Tides,  the  Sun's  place  declina- 
tion and  right  ascension,  the  Latitude  and  Longi- 
tude of  Places,  and  a  Table  of  Meridional  parts ; 
likewise  a  new  Traveree  Table,  and  its  use ;  a  Table 
of  1,000  Logarithms,  etc.  By  J.  Seller.  Printed  in 
1680.  Term  Catalogues  {Arher),!.  388. 

12  seamans  Companion  1  :  —  :  — 

The  Seaman's  Companion;  being  a  plain  Guide  to 
the  Understanding  of  Arithmetick,  Geometry,  Trig- 
onometry, Navigation,  and  Astronomy.  Applied 
chiefly  to  Navigation ;  and  furnished  with  a  Table 
of  Meridional  parts  to  every  third  minute.  With  ex- 
cellent ways  of  keeping  a  Reckoning  at  Sea ;  also  a 
Catalogue  of  the  Longitude  and  Latitude  of  the  Prin- 
cipal places  in  the  World  ;  with  other  useful  things. 
By  Matthew  Norwood,  Mariner.  The  third  edition 
appeared  in  \ 67 8. Term  Catalogues {Avher),i.  337. 

6  brooks  remedies  —  :  14  :  — 

Precious  remedies  against  Satan's  Devices,  or.  Salve 
for  believers  and  unbelievers  Sores.  By  Thomas 
Brookes.  The  eighth  edition  was  published  in  1 676. 
B.  M.  and  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  230. 

9  argalus  and  parthenia  —  :     6  :     9 

The  pleasant  and  delightful  History  of  Argalus  and 
P«r/Aem«,  newly  revived.  Price,  6  d.  Printed  in  1 677. 
Term  Catalog^ies  (Arber),  i.  295. 

1  Assemblys  annotations  2  :  —  :  — 

7  Clarks  tutours  —  :     8  :    2 

The  Clerk'sTutorforWriting  and  Arithmetick.  Issued 
in  1670,  and  sold  by  Henry  Twyford  in  Vine  Court ^ 
in  the  Middle  Temple.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  58.  The  price  was  1  5.,  so  I  question  this  item. 

2  Compleat  Clark  1  :  —  :  — 

The  Compleat  Clerk ;  containing  the  best  Forms  of 
all  sorts  of  Precedents  for  Conveyances  and  Assur- 
ances and  other  Instruments  now  in  use  and  practice. 
The  fourth  edition,  issued  in  1677,  is  announced  in 
the  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  286. 

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6  burrougs  Contentment  —  :  10  :  — 

The  rare  Jewel  of  Christian  Contentment;  wherein  is 
shewed,  1  .What  Contentment  is.  2  .The  Holy  Art,  or 
Mysterie  of  it.  3.  Several  Lessons  that  C%m/teach- 
eth  to  work  the  heart  to  Contentment.  4.  The  ex- 
cellencies of  it.  5.  The  evils  of  murmuring.  6.  The 
aggravation  of  the  sin  of  murmuring.  By  Jeremiah 
Burroughs.  Printed,  in  1678,  for  G.  Sawbridge  at 
the  Bible  on  Ludgate  Hill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arher), 
I.  304. 

2  Collins  on  providence  —  :  14  :  — 

Several  Discourses  concerning  the  actual  Providence 
of  God:  divided  into  Three  Parts.  The  First  treating 
concerning  the  notion  of  it,  establishing  the  doctrine 
of  it,  opening  the  principal  acts  of  it,  preservation 
and  government  of  created  beings.  With  the  par- 
ticular acts,  by  which  it  so  preserveth  and  governeth 
them.  The  Second  concerning  the  Specialities  of  it, 
the  unsearchable  things  in  its  motion.  The  Third 
concerning  the  hard  Chapters  of  it :  in  which  an  at- 
tempt is  made  to  solve  several  appearances  of  diffi- 
culty in  the  motions  of  Providence ;  and  to  vindicate 
the  Justice,  Wisdom,  and  Holiness,  of  God,  with  the 
reasonableness  of  his  dealing  in  such  motions.  By 
John  Collinges,  D.D.  Price,  10  s.  Printed,  in  1678, 
forT.  Parkhurst.  Term  Catalogues  (Arher),  i.  328. 

2  Everards  workes  —  :    9  :  — 

The  Gospel  Treasury  opened,  or  The  Holyest  of  all 
unvailed ;  discovering  yet  more  the  Riches  of  Grace 
and  Glory  to  the  Vessels  of  Mercy.  Unto  whom  it  is 
given  to  know  the  Mysteries  of  that  Kingdom ;  and 
the  excellency  of  Spirit,  Power,  Truth,  above  Letter, 
Forms,  Shadows.  In  several  Sermons,  preached  at 
Kensington  and  elsewhere.  By  John  Everard,  D.D., 
deceased.  The  Second  Edition  very  much  enlarged. 
Whereunto  is  added.  The  Mystical  Divinity  of 
Dionysius  the  Areopagite,  spoken  of  Acts  17.  34.; 
with  collections  out  of  other  Divine  Authors.  Trans- 
lated by  Dr.  Everard ;  never  before  printed  in  Eng- 
lish. Price,  6*.  Issued,  in  1679,  for  B.  Clarke  in 

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George  yard^  in  Lombard  street.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  362. 

6  Baxters  Call  —  :     5  :  — 

See  page  141,  infra. 

6  Doctrin  of  the  byble  —  :     6  :  — 

The  Doctrine  of  the  Bible,  or  Rules  of  Discipline ; 
briefly  gathered  through  the  whole  course  of  the 
Scriptures,  by  way  of  Question  and  Answer.  Newly 
corrected  and  amended.  Price,  186?.  Printed, in  1680, 
forE.  Brewster.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  388. 

10  ?  Wills  Commonwealth  —  :  10  :  — 

? Wit's  Commonwealth.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
II.  107. 

2  reynolds  on  Murther  1  :    2  :  — 

The  Triumphs  of  God's  Revenge  against  the  Crying 
and  Execrable  Sin  of  Murther,  Expressed  in  Thirty 
several  Tmgical  Histories.  Written  by  John  Reynolds. 
The  Sixth  Edition,  very  carefully  corrected .  To  which 
is  added,  God's  revenge  against  the  abominable  sin 
of  Adultery ;  containing  Ten  several  Histories  never 
printed  before.  Illustrated  with  new  Sculptures.  Folio. 
Printed,  in  1679,  for  T.  Lee.  Term  Catalogues {Ay- 
ber),i.  362. 

1  pembrooks  arcadia  —  :  1 1  :  — 

See  page  125,  infra. 

3  Colliers  divinity  —  :     9  :  — 

The  Body  of  Divinity,  or  A  Confession  of  Faith,  being 
the  substance  of  Christianity;  Containing  the  most 
material  things  relating  to  matters  both  of  Faith  and 
Practice.  By  Thomas  Collier.  Price,  4  s.  Printed,  in 
1 674,  for  Nath.  Crouch  in  Exchange  Alley,  in  Corn- 
hill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arh(tr),  i.  167. 

2  Flavell  on  providence  —  :    4  :     6 

Divine  Conduct,  or  The  Mysterie  of  Providence; 
wherein  the  Being  and  Efficacy  of  Providence  is  as- 
serted and  vindicated ;  the  Methods  of  Providence 
as  it  passes  through  the  several  stages  of  our  Lives 
opened ;  and  the  proper  coui'se  of  improving  all 

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Providences  directed.  In  a  Treatise  on  Psalm  57. 'i. 
By  John  Flavell,  Preacher  of  the  word.  Printed,  in 
1678,  for  F.  Tyton  at  the  Three  Daggers  in  Fleet 
street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  228. 

3  touchstones  —  :    3  :    6 

The  Touchstone  of  Sincerity,  or  The  signs  of  Grace 
and  Symptomes  of  Hypocrisie,  opened  in  a  Practical 
Treatise  upon  Revel.  3.  17.  18. :  being  the  Second 
Part  of 'The  Saint  indeed. '  By  John  Flavell.  Printed, 
in  1678,  for  F.  Tyton.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i. 
328. 

12  smiths  narrative  —  :    9  :  — 

The  Narrative  of  Mr.  John  Smith,  of  Walworth  in 
the  County  Palatine  of  Durham^  Gent,  containing  a 
further  Discovery  of  the  late  horrid  and  popish  Plot : 
with  an  account  of,  1 .  The  Inconsistency  of  Popish 
Principles  with  the  Peace  of  all.  2.  Their  Destruc- 
tiveness  to  all  Protestant  Kingdomes.  3.  The  In- 
couragements  upon  which  the  Papists  undertook  so  ' 
hellish  a  design  against  England.  4.  The  Progress 
they  had  made  in  it.  5.  The  reasons  of  their  endeav- 
ouring more  especially  the  death  of  his  present  Ma- 
jesty. 6 .  With  a  Vindication  of  the  Justice  of  the  Na- 
tion upon  the  Traitors  executed.  Price,  1  s.  Printed, 
in  1679,  for  R.  Boulter.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  370. 

12  Clarks  formula  —  :  12  :  — 

Formulae  Oratoriae.  In  usum  Scholarum  concinnatae. 
By  Joseph  Clarke.  The  eleventh  edition  appeared  in 
1673.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  144. 

24  testaments  1  .-    4  :  — 

6  senecas  —  :  12  :  — 

L.  et  M.  Annaei  Senecae  Tragoediae;  post  omnes  om- 
nium editiones  recensionesque  editae  denuo,  et  notis 
Tho.  Farnabii  illustratae.  Issued  in  1 675  for  2  5.  6  c?. 
Or, 
L.  Annaei  Senecae  et  aliorum  Tragoediae  serio  emen- 
datae.  Printed  in  1679.  Price,  2  s.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  222,  376. 

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3  Doolitles  Catechis  —  :    5  :  — 

The  Young  Man's  Instructor,  and  the  Old  Man's  Re- 
membrancer ;  or  Controversies  and  Practical  Truths 
fitted  to  theCapacity  of  Children,  and  the  more  igno- 
rant sort  of  people.  Done  in  a  Catechetical  Exercise 
on  the  Lord's  Day  :  wherein  several  erroneous  Doc- 
trines of  Quakers,  Socinians,  Arminians,  Antino- 
minians,  and  Papists,  are  propounded  and  confuted. 
With  Practical  Applications,  etc.  By  Thomas  Doo- 
little.  Printed,  in  1673,  for  Thomas  Parkhurst  in 
Cheapside.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  140. 

2  Coles  soveranity  —  :    5  :  — 

3  Januas  works  —  :    7  :  — 

Janeway  or  Janua.  See  page  1 69,  infra.  «^  ''^' 

5  Culpepers  dispensatory  —  :  16  :  — 

See  page  131,  infra. 

6  phisitian  —  :  14  :  — 

See  page  131,  infra. 

2  perfect  politician  —  :    4  :    3 

The  Perfect  Politician,  or  A  full  view  of  the  Life  and 
Actions  (Military  and  Civil)  of  0.  Cromwell.  Con- 
taining also  a  History  of  the  late  Civil  War,  so  far 
as  he  was  concerned  therein.  The  Second  Edition. 
Whereunto  is  added,  his  Character;  and  a  compleat 
Catalogue  of  all  the  Honours  conferr'd  by  him  on  sev- 
eral Persons.  Printed,  in  1 679,  for  J.  Crump  at  the 
Three  Bibles  in  St.  Paw/' 5  Churchyard.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i,  376. 

6  ash  woods  trade  —  :  18  :  — 

The  Heavenly  Trade,  or  The  best  Merchandizing ; 
the  only  way  to  live  well  in  impoverishing  times. 
A  Discourse  occasioned  from  the  decay  of  ELarthly 
trades,  and  visible  wastes  of  Practical  piety,  in  the 
day  we  live  in ;  offering  Arguments  and  Counsels 
to  all,  towards  a  speedy  Revival  of  dying  Godliness, 
and  timely  prevention  of  the  Issues  thereof  impend- 
ing on  us.  Necessary  for  all  Families.  By  Bartholo- 
mew Ash  wood .  Printed ,  in  1 6  7  9 ,  for  S .  Lee  in  Lorn- 

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bard  street^  near  Pope's  Head  Alley.  Term  Cata- 
logues ( A  rber) ,  1 .  347. 

3  rythers  plat  —  :     5  : 

A  Plat  for  Mariners,  or  The  Seaman's  Preacher.  De- 
livered in  several  Sermons  upon  Jonah's  Voyage. 
By  John  Ryther,  Preacher  of  God's  Word  in  Wap- 
ping^  near  London.  Printed,  in  1672,  for  Dorman 
Newman  at  the  King's  Arms  in  the  Poultrey.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  101. 

1  baxter  of  Concord  —  :    3  : 

The  true  and  only  way  of  Concord  of  all  the  Chris- 
tian Churches,  the  desirableness  of  it,  and  the  detec- 
tion of  false  dividing  terms,  opened  by  Richard  Bax- 
ter. Printed,  in  1679,  for  John  Hancock.  Tertn  Cat- 
alogues (Arber),  I.  378. 

1  tanners  art  of  physick  —  :    2  : 

The  hidden  Treasures  of  the  Art  of  Physick  fully  dis- 
covered in  Four  Books.  By  John  Tanner,  Student  in 
Physick  and  Astrology.  Price,  3  s.  Printed  in  1 673. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  130. 

2  temples  miscellanea  —  :    4  : 

Miscellanea,  i.  A  survey  of  the  Constitutions  and  in- 
terests of  the  Empire,  Sweden,  Denmark,  Spain,  Hol- 
land, France  and  Flanders;  with  their  Relation  to 
England  m  the  year  1  67 1 .  ii.  An  Essay  upon  the  Ori- 
ginal and  Nature  of  Government,  m.  An  Essay  upon 
the  Advancement  of  Tmde  in  Ireland,  iv.  Upon  the 
Conjuncture  of  affairs  in  Octo.  1673.  v.  Upon  the 
Excesses  of  Grief,  vi.  An  Essay  upon  the  Cure  of  the 
Gout  by  Moxa.  By  Sir  William  Temple.  Printed,  in 
1679,  for  E.  Gellibrand  at  the  Golden  Ball  in  St. 
Paul's  Churchyard .  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ,  i.  3 74 . 

6  pearse  of  death  —  :     5  : 

The  great  concern,  or  A  serious  warning  to  a  timely  and 
thorough  preparation  for  death.  Price,  \s.  Printed 
in  1673,  and  sold  by  J.  Robinson.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  15  6.  The  author  was  Edward  Pearse. 
The  sixth  edition  appeared  in  1680.  See  Dictionary 
of  National  Biography,  xliv.  159. 


Appendices 


3  doiiting  Christian 

See  page  126,  infra. 

2  Vertuous  woman 
See  page  121,  infra. 

4  help  to  discours 

A  help  to  Discourse,  or  More  Merriment  mixt  with 
Serious  matters.  The  seventh  edition  was  printed 
in  1 682  for  R.  Scot,  Chiswell,  etc.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  515. 

18  flavell  on  the  sacrement 

Sacramental  Meditations  upon  Twelve  select  places 
of  Scriptures ;  wherein  believers  are  assisted  in 
preparing  and  exciting  their  affections  and  graces, 
when  they  draw  nigh  to  God  in  that  most  useful 
and  solemn  ordinance  of  the  Lord's  Supper.  By 
John  Flavell,  Minister  at  Dartmouth.  Printed,  in 
1680,  for  J.  Sampson,  next  to  the  Wonder,  Tav- 
ern, in  Ludgate  street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ,  i. 
381. 

24  vincents  Catechis 

The  Little  Child's  Catechism ;  in  which  the  Princi- 
ples of  the  Christian  Religion  are,  in  plain  Words 
and  short  Answers,  laid  down,  and  suited  to  the 
Memories  and  Underetanding  of  Children :  to  which 
are  added.  Several  short  Histories  which  may  both 
please  and  profit  them.  By  Nathaniel  Vincent.  Price, 
6d.  Printed  in  1681.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i. 
448. 

6  alleins  Catt 

6  leis  Catt 

6  Janewais  life 

Invisibles,  realities,  demonstrated  in  the  .  .  .  life 
and  .  .  .  death  of  Mr.  John  Janeway,  etc.  By  James 
Janeway.  [With  a  preface  by  Richard  Baxter.]  Lon- 


2:  3 
2  :  6 
4  :     4 


18  :  — 


1  :  16  :  — 


The  Saints  Looking-glasse  exposed  to  view,  in  the 
most  exemplary  life  and  triumphant  death  of  that 
pious  and  painfull  minister  of  the  Gospell,  Mr. 


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Jahies  Janeway  lately  deceased.  Printed  in  1674 
by  Benjamin  Harris.  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and 
Rivington),  ii.  479. 

4  Johnsons  Deus  Nobiscum  —  :    3  :  — 

3  watsons  Contentment  —  :    3  :    6 

AiiTapKcta,  or  the  art  of  divine  contentment.  By 
Thomas  Watson.  The  fourteenth  edition  appeared 
in  1676. 

6  pooles  nullity  —  :  12  :  — 

The  Nullity  of  the  Romish  Faith.  Or  a  blow  at  the 
root  of  the  Romish  Church,  being  an  examination 
of  that  fundamental  doctrine  of  the  Church  of  Rome 
concerning  the  Churches  Infallibility.  By  Matthew 
Poole.  Oxfoixi,  1666.  Four  editions  appeared  before 
1680.  B.M. 

12 Dialogues  —  :    9  :  — 

A  Dialogue  between  a  Popish  Priest  and  an  Eng- 
lish Protestant ;  wherein  the  principal  Points  and 
Arguments  of  both  Religions  are  truly  proposed 
and  fully  examined.  By  Matthew  Poole.  The  last 
Edition  corrected  and  amended,  issued  in  1676,  for 
Thomas  Cockerill,  at  the  Atlas  in  Cornhill.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  259. 

100  testaments  5  :  —  :  — 

1  Bacons  works  —  :  12  :  — 

Eesuscitatio,  or  bringing  into  publick  light  several 
pieces  of  the  works,  Civil,  Historical,  Philosophical, 
and  Theological,  hitherto  sleeping,  of  the  Right 
Honourable  Francis  Bacon,  Baron  of  Verulam,  Vis- 
count St.  Albans.  In  Two  parts.  Together  with  his 
Lordship's  Life.  By  William  Rawley,  D.D.,  his 
Lordship's  first  and  last  Chaplain.  Price,  145.  Printed, 
in  1 67 1 ,  for  William  Lee.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) , 
1.82.  Editions  of  his  Essays  are  noted  in  Ibid.  ,156, 
351,388. 

1  Cloud  witnesses  —  :    4  :    6 

?  A  Cloud  of  Witnesses  for  the  royal  prerogatives  of 
Jesus  Christ,  or  the  last  speeches  and  testimonies  of 


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those  who  suffered  for  the  truth  in  Scotland  since  the 
year  1680.  The  third  edition  is  dated  1 730.  B.  M. 

1  phillips  dictionary  —  :    9 

The  New  World  of  Words,  or  A  general  English 
Dictionary.  The  full  title  of  the  fourth  edition,  is- 
sued in  1 678,  is  in  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ,  i.  314. 
Edward  Phillips  was  a  nephew  of  Milton.  See  Dic- 
tionary of  National  Biography^  xlv.  197. 

1  Caesars  Commentary  —  :  11 

2  leighs  Caesars  —  :    5 

6  wise  masters  —  :    3 

See  page  171,  infra. 

2  Erastus  —  :    3  :    4 

2  Vnlucky  Citicen  —  :    4  :  — 

The  Unlucky  Citizen  experimentally  described  in  the 
various  Misfortunes  of  an  unlucky  Londoner.  Cal- 
culated for  the  Meridian  of  this  City  ;  but  may  serve, 
by  way  of  Advice,  to  all  the  Commonalty  of  Eng- 
land. Illustmted  with  several  Pictures  fitted  to  the 
several  Stories.  Price,  3  s.  Printed,  in  1  673,  for  Fran- 
cis Kirkman,  over  against  the  Robin  Hood,  in  Fan- 
church  street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  152. 

2  Rich  Cabinet  —  :    3  :  — 

?  The  Queen-like  Closet,  or  rich  Cabinet,  stored  with 
all  manner  of  rare  Receipts  for  preserving.  Candy- 
ing, and  Cookery.  Very  pleasant  and  beneficial  to  all 
Ingenious  persons  of  the  Female  Sex.  To  which  is 
added,  A  supplement  presented  to  all  Ingenious 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen.  By  Hannah  Wolley.  The 
fourth  edition  was  printed,  in  1 680,  for  R.  Chiswell. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  423.  See  also  Ibid..,  ii. 
104. 

1  Senecas  moralls  —  :     6  :     6 

9  Gentle  Craft  —  :    4  :     6 

Published  about  1670  by  F.Coles. 

1  Cambdens  Elizabeth  —  :  1 1  :  — 

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ing all  the  most  important  and  remarkable  Passages 
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were  linked  with  English  affairs) ,  during  her  long 
and  prosperous  Reign.  By  William  Camden.  The 
third  edition  was  issued  in  1 6  7  5 ,  for  Charles  Harper. 
Price,  15  s.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  200. 

1  Miltons  history  —  :    4  :  — 

The  History  of  Britain,  that  part  especially  now  called 
England;  from  the  first  traditional  beginning  con- 
tinued to  the  Norman  Conquest.  Collected  out  of  the 
ancientest  and  best  Authors  thereof.  By  John  Mil- 
ton. Price,  5  s.  Printed  in  1677.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  277. 

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The  renowned  History,  or.  The  Life  and  Death  of 
Guyy  Earl  of  Warwick;  containing  his  noble  Exploits 
and  Victories,  never  before  published  in  Prose.  By 
John  Shirley.  Printed,  in  1681,  for  P.  Brooksby  at 
the  Golden  Ball  in  West  Smithjield.  Price,  6d.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  428. 

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The  most  delectable  History  of  Reynard  the  Fox, 
The  First  and  Second  Parts :  now  newly  corrected 
and  purged  from  all  Crossness  in  Phrase  and  matter ; 
as  also  augmented  and  enlarged  with  sundry  excel- 
lent Morals  and  Expositions  upon  every  Chapter. 
Printed,  in  1 68 1 ,  for  E.  Brewster.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  454. 

3  war  with  the  Jews  —  :     6  :     9 

1  Parys  Narative  —  :  —  :  10 

12  dr  Faustus  —  :    4  :     6 

See  page  129,  infra. 

6  torn  reading  —  :    4  :    6 

6 Lincolns  —  :     5  :  — 

The  most  pleasant  History  of  Tom  A  Lincoln.  En- 
tered at  Stationers'  Hall  April  30,  1698,  by  Jonah 

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Deacon  and  John  Wilde.  Stationers^  Registers  (Eyre 
and  Rivington),  m.  476. 

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try. Price,  6  d.  Printed  in  1677,  and  sold  by  T.  Pas- 
senger. Term  (Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  295. 

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was  assigned, in  April,  1 655,  by  Edward  Wright  to 
William  Gilbertson.  Stationers''  Registers  (Eyre  and 
Rivington),  I.  470. 

6  Jack  Newberry  —  :    2  :    6 

Jack  of  Newbury  is  mentioned  in  the  Stationers'  Re- 
gisters in  July,  1 644,  as  passing  from  Robert  Young 
to  his  son  James  Young.  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  i. 
123. 

4  absolute  accoumpt  —  :  18  :  — 

The  absolute  Accomptant  and  London  Merchant.  By 
Thomas  Browne.  Printed  for  the  Author  in  1673, 
and  priced  at  6  5.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  150. 

6  Garland  of  delight  —  :    2  :    6 

Transferred,  March,  1649,  from  the  Estate  of  John 
Beale  to  John  Parker.  Stationers*  Registers  (Eyre  and 
Rivington),  i.  314. 

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Chances.  Printed,  in  1679,  for  George  Sawb ridge. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  362. 

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and  Songes,  digested  into  Triumph,  Elegie,  Satyr, 
Love,  and  Drollerie  by  Thomas  Jordan.  Printed 
in  1 663.  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington) , 
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rison to  John  Staffoixi  and  William  Gilbertson,  and 
April  30,  1698,  by  Jonah  Deacon  and  John  Wild. 
Stationers''  Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  i.  468 ; 
m.  476. 

6  history  of  Joseph  —  :    2  :    6 

The  History  of  Joseph^  or  A  Divine  Poem  upon  Jo- 
seph and  his  Brethren :  from  the  37th  of  Genesis  to 
the  end.  To  which  is  added,  A  few  other  Poems.  By 
J.  Smith.  Price,  6  d.  Printed,  in  1677,  for  W.  Thack- 
eray at  the  Angel  in  Duck  lane.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  281. 

6  Devill  &  Dives  —  :    2  :  — 

A  Dreame  of  the  Divell  and  Dives.  Taken  over,  in 
June,  1646,  by  Edwaixi  Wright  from  his  brother, 
John  Wright,  and  in  1655,  from  Edwaixi  Wright 
by  William  Gilbertson.  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre 
and  Rivington),  i.  23^,  470. 

6  Booke  of  knowledg  —  :    3  :  — 

The  Book  of  Knowledge.  In  Three  Parts.  Price,  1  s. 
Printed,  in  1675,  for  T.  Passenger.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  223. 

4  Mandevills  tr  a  veils  —  :    3  :  — 

The  Voyages  and  Travels  of  Sir  John  Mandeville, 
Knight ;  wherein  is  set  down  the  way  to  the  Holy 
Land  and  to  Jerusalem^  as  also  to  the  lands  of  the 
great  Cham,  and  of  Prester  John,  to  India,  and  divere 
other  countries.  Together  with  many  and  strange 
marvels  therein.  Price,  1  s.  Printed,  in  1677,  for  B. 
Tooke  at  the  Ship  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  284. 

6  wise  masters  —  :    3  :    6 

See  page  171,  infra. 

3  wakemans  tryalls  —  :     7  :  — 

The  History  of  the  Plot,  or  a  brief  and  historical  ac- 
count of  the  charge  and  defence  of  Edward  Coleman 

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...  Sir  George  Wakeman  .  .  . ;  not  omitting  any 
one  material  Passage  in  the  whole  Proceeding.  Com- 
piled by  Roger  L'Estrange.  Price,  2  5.  &  d.  Printed, 
in  1679,  for  R.  Tonson  at  Gray's  Inn  Gate,  next 
Gray's  Inn  lane.  A  second  edition  appeared  in  1  680. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  369,  410. 

2  Langhams 

Richard  Langhorne  was  one  of  those  tried  with  Wake- 
man;  but  the  B.  M.  has: 

The  tryal  of  R.  Langhorne  ...  for  conspiring  the 
death  of  the  King,  subversion  of  the  Government, 
and  Protestant  Religion,  who  .  .  .  was  found  guilty 
of  High  Treason,  etc.  London,  1679. 

3  dugdalls 

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delivered  at  the  Bar  of  the  House,  Oct.  30.  1680. 
Price,  6  c?.  Printed,  in  1680,  for  T.  Parkhurst  at 
the  Bible  and  Three  Crowns  in  Cheapside.  Term 
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and  loss  of  the  Proposer ;  but  now  it  is  done,  he  hopes 
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Issued  in  1 6 1 8 .  A  copy  is  in  the  American  Antiquarian 
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Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  126. 

7  Gouges  Young  mans  guide  with  word  to 
S  [ain]  ts  and  Sinners  and  Xtian  Housholder 
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The  Young  Man's  Guide  through  the  Wilderness  of 

this  World  to  the  Heavenly  Canaan .  Printed ,  in  1 6  7  6 , 

for  J.  Hancock.  See  page  127,  infra. 
A  Word  to  Sinners  and  a  woixi  to  Saints ;  with  the 

Principles  of  Christian  Religion  explained  to  the 

capacity  of  the  meanest.  By  Thomas  Gouge.  Printed 

in  1682.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  123,  239. 

12  Doz  of  White  Clasps 

10  Hodders  Arithmetick  12°  sh 

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5  Janeways  Heauen  on.  Earth  8  sh 

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ginal  of  Ensigns,  the  Postures  of  their  Coloui's ;  with 
Sir  Francis  Vere's  Directions  for  Officei-s,  and  A  small 
Treatise  of  Invasion.  By  Captain  Thomas  Venn. 
Book  II.  Of  Military  Architecture,  and  Fortifying 
of  Towns ;  with  Sir  Sam.  Morland,  of  Fortification. 
Book  m.  Being  the  Compleat  Gunner,  in  Three  Parts. 
Price,  14  5.  Printed,  in  1  672,  for  Thomas  Passenger. 
Term  (Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  111. 

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Military  Discipline;  or,  the  young  Artillery-man. 
Wherein  is  discoursed  and  showne  the  postures  both 
of  musket  and  pike  .  .  .  together  with  the  exercise 
of  the  foot  in  their  motions  ...  as  also  diverse  .  .  . 
formes  for  the  imbattelling  small  or  greater  bodies, 
etc.  With  the  way  to  draw  up  the  Swedish  brigade. 
London,  1643.  The  third  edition  was  dated  1643, 
and  the  sixth,  in  three  volumes,  1661 .  B.  M. 

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some  Animadversions  upon  Pro.  xiii.  10.  Price,  8  d. 
Printed,  in  1 674,  for  Thomas  Parkhurst.  Term  Cat- 
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The  Poor  Man's  family  Book.  1 .  Teaching  him  how 
to  become  a  true  Christian.  2.  How  to  live  as  a 
Christian.  ...  3.  How  to  die  as  a  Christian.  .  .  . 
In  plain  familiar  conferences  between  a  Teacher  and 
a  Learner.  By  Richard  Baxter.  London,  1 674.  B.  M. 
The  third  edition  was  printed,  in  1677,  for  William 
Bromwich.  Term  Catalogues {x\rhev) ,  i.  285. 

20  Flauells  Saint  Indeed  8°  sh  -7     00.11.    8 

See  page  141,  infra. 

20 Token  for  Mourners  8°  sh  -7     00  .  11  .    8 

See  page  140,  infra. 

10 on  the  Sacrement  12°  sh  -10     00  .     8  .    4 

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10 Seamans  Compas  8°  sh  1-     00  .  10  .    0 

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4 Husbandry  4°  sh  1-10     00  .    7  .    4 

Husbandry  Spiritualized,  or  The  Heavenly  use  of 
Earthly  things :  consisting  of  many  pleasant  obser- 
vations. Pertinent  applications,  and  serious  reflec- 
tions; and  each  Chapter  concluded  with  a  Divine 
and  suitable  Poem ;  directing  Husbandmen  to  the 
most  excellent  improvements  of  their  common  im- 
ployments.  Whereunto  are  added.  Several  choice 
occasional  meditations  upon  Biixls,  Beasts,  Trees, 
Flowers,  Rivers,  and  several  other  objects.  By  John 
Flavell.  Price,  3  s.  Printed,  in  1679,  for  R.  Boulter. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  8. 

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Righteous  mans  Refuge  in  the  Evil  day.  By  John 
Flavell,  Minister  of  the  Gospel.  Printed,  in  1682, 
for  R.  Boulter.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  471. 

20  Baxters  Call  12°  sh  -7     00  .  11  .    8 

See  page  141,  infra. 

10 Now  or  Neuer  12°  shi  -9     00  .    7  .    6 

See  page  141 ,  infra. 

5  Brooks  String  of  Pedes  12°  sh  -8     00  .    3  .    4 

A  String  of  Pearls,  or  The  best  things  reserved  till  last ; 
discovered  in  a  Sermon  preached  in  London,  June  8, 
1 757,  at  the  Funeral  of  Mrs.  Mary  Blake ,  Wife  to 
Mr.  Nich.  Blake,  Merchant.  By  Thomas  Brookes. 
Price,  1  s.  Printed  in  1  67 1  and  1 674.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  I.  74,  191. 

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4 Ark  for  Gods  Noah  8°  sh^  2-2     00    -8    -5 


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The  Saints  Everlasting-  Rest:  or  a  treatise  of  the 
blessed  state  of  the  saints  in  their  enjoyment  of  God 
in  glory.  By  Richard  Baxter.  The  eleventh  edition 
W2(S  issued  in  1677.  B.  M.  and  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  284. 

10  Brooks  Mute  Xtian  12°  sh  -10     00  .    8  .    4 

The  Mute  Christian.  By  Thomas  Brookes.  Printed, 
in  1671,  for  John  Hancock.  Price,  Is.  6  d.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  75. 

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new  Copy-book,  wherein  the  Bastard  Italians,  (com- 
monly) called  the  new  a  la  mode  round  Hands,  with 
round,  mixt,  running,  Hands,  and  mixt  Secretaries, 
are  so  modell'd  as  to  dispatch  business  with  facility 
and  neatness.  Written  with  much  variety,  according- 
to  the  natural  freedom  of  the  Pen,  by  John  Ayres, 
Master  of  the  Writing  School  at  the  Hand  and  Pen, 
near  S.  Paul's  School.  Printed,  in  1 682,  for  H.  Hat- 
ley.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  497. 

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30  Strongs  Spelling  book  8°  sh  -9     01  .    2  .    6 

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6  Uernons  Compting  house  8°  sh  2-3     00  .  13  .     6 

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by  way  of  Dialogue,  in  all  the  Misteries  of  a  Mer- 
chant, from  plain  Arithmetick  to  the  highest  pitch 
of  Trade.  Whereby  the  Master  is  saved  much  La- 
bour, and  the  Lad  is  led  by  the  Hand  to  all  his  Busi- 
ness. A  Work  very  Necessary  for  all  that  are  con- 
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The  Academy  of  Complements,  with  many  new  Addi- 
tions of  Songs  and  Catches  a  la  mode ;  with  signi- 
ficant Letters  upon  several  occasions.  Composed  for 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen.  Printed  in  1 67 1 .  Term  Cata- 
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Compendium  Geographicum :  or,  a  more  exact, 
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yet  extant ,  after  the  latest  discoveries .  By  P .  C .  Cham- 


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berlayne.  The  second  edition  was  printed  in  London, 
in  1685.  B.M. 

1  Haworth  of  Consumption  8°  sh  00  .    0  .    9 

The  true  method  of  curings  Consumptions ;  wherein, 
I .  The  vulgar  method  is  discovered  to  be  useless  and 
pernicious.  2.  A  new  method,  by  safe,  pleasant,  and 
effectual,  Remedies,  is  described.  3 .  The  original  and 
immediate  Cause  of  this  Distemper  is  explain  'd ;  and 
several  remarkable  Observations  on  Persons  lately 
cured  by  the  same  method  related :  particularly  the 
case  of  Mr.  0' Brian,  whom  the  Author  undertook,  by 
his  Majesties  Command  ;  with  an  account  of  a  Cure 
performed  on  a  Person  of  Quality  at  Paris,  and  sev- 
eral others.  By  Samuel  Haworth.  Price,  I  s.  Printed, 
in  1682,  for  S.  Smith  at  the  Prince's  Arms  in  St. 
Paul's  Churchyai-d.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  508 . 

1  Bens  Sermons.  8°  sh  00  .    2  .    0 

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nent Servant  of  Christ,  Mr.  William  Benn,  late  of 
Dorchester  in  Dorsetshire.  Printed,  in  1682,  for 
A.  Churchill  at  the  Black  Swan,  near  Amen  Corner. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  505. 

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How  to  do  good  to  many ;  or,  the  publick  good  is  the 
Christian's  Life.  Directions  and  Motives  to  it,  in- 
tended for  an  auditory  of  London  Citizens,  and  pub- 
lished for  them,  for  want  of  leave  to  preach  them. 
By  Richard  Baxter.  London,  1  682.  Itisin  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  ii.  2 ,  for  1 6 8 3 ,  printed  for  R.  Gibbs. 

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Matrimony ;  being  in  requital  of  the  late  Fifteen  Sham- 
Comforts.  With  Satyrical  Reflections  on  Whoring, 
and  the  Debauchery  of  this  Age.  By  a  Person  of 
Quality  of  the  Female  Sex.  The  second  edition  ap- 
peared in  1683,  printed  for  T.  Malthus  at  the  Sun 
in  the  Poultrey.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  20. 

1  Miracles  no  uiolat.  Laws  Nature.  4°  00  .    0  .  10 

Miracles  no  violations  of  the  Laws  of  Nature.  Price, 


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6  d.  Printed,  in  1682,  for  R.  Sellers  at  the  King's 
Arms  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  511. 

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Actions,  and  Politicks,  of  that  great  Minister  of 
State,  Jlnthony^  Earl  of  Shaftsbury ;  containing  an 
historical  Account  of  his  Descent,  his  administration 
of  Affairs  in  the  time  of  0.  Cromwell^  his  unwearied 
endeavour  to  restore  his  most  Sacred  Majesty,  his 
Zeal  in  prosecuting  the  horrid  Popish  Plot ;  several 
of  his  learned  Speeches,  during  his  being  Lord  Chan- 
cellor ;  his  two  Committments  to  the  Tower ;  the  most 
material  passages  at  his  Tryal.  With  many  more  con- 
siderable instances,  unto  his  Lordship's  going  for 
Holland.  Price,  Is.  Printed,  in  1683,  for  B.  Alsop 
at  the  Angel  and  Bible.  Term  Catalogues  {Arher),  ii. 
3.  "Memoii's"  in  folio  appeared  at  the  same  time. 
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The  London  Jilt,  or  The  Politick  Whore ;  shewing 
all  the  artifices  and  stratagems  which  the  Ladies  of 
Pleasure  make  use  of,  for  the  intreaguing  and  decoy- 
ing of  men ;  interwoven  with  several  pleasant  stories 
of  the  Misses'  ingenious  performances.  Price,  1  s. 
Printed,  in  1  683,  forH.Rodes,  next  the  Bear, Tav- 
ern, in  Fleet  street.  A  second  part  appeared  in  the 
same  year,  and  the  two  parts  together  in  1684.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  5 , 1 9 ,  8 9 . 

For  Mr.  Shepard 

1  Mordens  Geography  4°  Ca  00  .     5  .     6 

Geography  rectified,  or  A  description  of  the  World, 
in  all  its  Kingdoms,  Provinces,  Countries,  Islands, 
Cities,  Towns,  Seas,  Rivers,  Bays,  Capes,  Ports; 
their  ancient  and  present  Names,  Inhabitants,  Scit- 
uations.  Histories,  Customs,  Governments,  etc. ;  as 
also  their  Commodities,  Coins,  Weights  and  Mea- 
sures, compared  with  those  at  London.  Illustrated 


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with  above  Sixty  new  Maps.  The  whole  work  per- 
formed according  to  the  more  accurate  discoveries 
of  modern  Author.  By  Robert  Morden.  Price,  6s. 
Printed,  in  1  680,  for  R.  Morden  at  the  Atlas  in  Corn- 
hill.  Term  Calalogues  (Arber),  i.  404. 

1  Piety  the  best  Rule  of  Orthodoxie  8°  sh  00  .  0  .  9 
Piety,  the  best  Rule  of  Orthodoxy ;  or  An  Essay  upon 
this  proposition.  That  the  conduciveness  of  Doctrines 
to  Holiness,  or  Vice,  is  the  best  rule  for  private  Chris- 
tians to  judge  the  Truth,  or  falsehood  of  them  by. 
In  a  Letter  to  his  Honoured  friend  H.  M.  By  Henry 
Hesketh,  Vicar  of  St.  Hellen's,  and  Chaplain  to  his 
Majesty.  Printed,  in  1680,  for  W.  Kettilby  at  the 
Bishop's  Head  in  St.  Paul's  Churchy 3.rd.  Term  Cal- 
alogues (Arber),  I.  414. 

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The  Poetical  History ;  being  a  compleat  Collection  of 
all  the  Stories  necessary  for  a  perfect  understanding 
the  Greek  and  Latin  Poets,  and  other  Ancient  Au- 
thors. Written  in  French  by  the  learned  Jesuit,  P. 
Galtruchius :  now  Englished,  and  enriched  with  Ob- 
servations concerning  the  Gods  worshipped  by  our 
Ancestors,  by  the  Phoenicians  and  Syrians  in  ^sia; 
with  many  useful  Notes,  and  occasional  Proverbs, 
gathered  out  of  the  best  Authoi-s.  To  which  is  added. 
Two  Treatises :  one  of  the  Curiosities  of  old  Rome., 
the  other  concerning  the  Hieroglyphicks  of  Egypt. 
By  M.  D'Assigny,  B.D.  Price,  2  s.  6  d.  The  fifth 
edition,  printed  in  1  682,  was  sold  by  M.  Pitt  at  the 
Angel  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Calalogues 
(Arber),  i.  513. 

1  Owen  on  the  Hebrews.  3  vol  fol  Ca  02  .    0  .    0 

Exercitations,  and  an  Exposition  on  the  3,4,  and  5, 
Chapters  of  the  Epistles  of  St.  Paul  the  Apostle  to 
the  Hebrews.  By  John  Owen.  The  second  volume  was 
issued  in  1673,  by  Nath.  Ponder.  Price,  16s.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  146. 

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the  Infinite  Wisdom,  Love,  and  Power,  of  God  in 
the  contrivance  and  constitution  thereof.  As  also  of 
the  grounds  and  reasons  of  his  Incarnation,  the  na- 
ture of  his  ministry  in  Heaven,  the  present  state  of 
the  Church  above  thereon,  and  the  use  of  his  pereon 
in  Religion.  With  an  account  and  vindication  of  the 
Honour,  Worship,  Faith,  Love,  and  Obedience,  due 
unto  him  in,  and  from,  the  Church.  By  John  Owen, 
D.D.  Printed, in  1680, for  Nath.  Ponder.  Term  Cat- 
alogues (Arber),  i.  381.  Or^ 
Meditations  and  Discourses  on  the  Glory  of  Christ  in 
his  Person,  Office,  and  Grace;  with  the  difference 
between  faith  and  sight,  apply ed  unto  the  use  of 
them  that  believe.  By  the  late  reverend  John  Owen, 
D.D.  Printed ,  in  1 6  8  3 ,  for  B .  Alsop  at  the  Angel  and 
Bible  in  the  Poultry.  Ibid.,  ii.  41. 

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A  practical  Exposition  on  the  130  Psalm;  wherein 
the  nature  of  the  Forgiveness  of  Sin  is  declared,  the 
truth  and  reality  of  it  asserted,  and  the  Case  of  a  Soul 
distressed  with  the  Guilt  of  Sin  and  relieved  by  a 
Discovery  of  Forgiveness  with  God,  is  at  large  dis- 
coursed. By  John  Owen.  Printed  in  1680  and  1681, 
and  sold  by  N.  Ponder  at  the  Peacock  in  the  Poul- 
try. Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  391,  434. 

10  Burtons  Wonderful  Prodogies  12°  sh    -9     00  .    7  .    6 
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A  Treatise  concerning  the  Lord's  Supper.  With  Three 
Dialogues,  for  the  more  full  information  of  the  weak 
in  the  nature  and  use  of  the  Sacrament.  By  Thomas 
Doolittle.  The  fifth  edition,  issued  in  1670,  was 
printed  for  G.  Calvert.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  39. 

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The  Lord's  last  Sufferings  shewed  in  the  Lord's  Sup- 
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litical  Execution  at  Golgotha^  practically  improved ; 
being  a  Second  Part  to  the  former  Treatise  of  the 
Lord's  Supper.  By  Thomas  Doolittle.  Printed,  in 
1682,  for  T.  Parkhurst.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  505;  also  458. 

50  New  England  psalms  12°  qs  -7>^     01  .  19  .    7 

See  page  123,  infra. 

50  Idem  12°  sh  -11^^      02.    7.11 

30  History  of  Dr.  Faustus  4°  st  -4     00  .  10  .    0 

See  page  129,  infra. 

1  Teats  Map  of  the  Wilderness  Sin  4°  Ca        00  .    4  .    0 
See  page  73,  supra. 

Terme  cattallouge  No.  11.  12  00  .    0  .    0 

Published  in  Easter  and  Trinity  Terms,  1683. 

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The  Boston  Book  Market 

Mem'd,  haue  examined  and  its  cast  vp  right  in  all  the  3  sides. 
The  order  not  mentioning  which  Accademy  of  Compliments 

you  would  haue,  both  sorts  are  sentt. 
Hookers  doubting  Christian 
Aliens  Rebuke 
Owen  of  Comunion 
Burtons  Wares  of  England  1  out  of  print  and 

Amicable  [Admirable]  Curiositys     J  doing  againe. 

El  tons  Military  Discipline — uery  scarce  and  sold  for  12^. 
Moxons  Monthly  Exercises — Not  to  be  had  compl. 
Turkey  Leather  is  a  uery  scarce  Commodity  at  this  time  here. 


out  of  print  and 
not  to  be  had 


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VII 

List  No.  Ill 

Sold  to  Mr.  John  lue 

March  the  3d,  1683-84. 

lb.         s.         d 

3  Virtuous  Woman  found.  12^  sh.  1-3     0-3-9 

The  Virtuous  Woman  found,  her  loss  bewail'd,  and 
character  exemplified,  in  a  Sermon  preached  at  Fel- 
sted  in  Essex,  at  the  funeral  of  the  most  excellent  and 
religious  Lady,  the  Right  Honourable  Mary,  Count- 
ess Dowager  of  Warwick.  By  Anthony  Walker.  The 
first  edition  was  issued  in  1678  ;  the  second  edition, 
issued  in  1 679,  was  printed  for  N.  Ranew,  and  sold 
for  18c?.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  327,  376. 

2  Erie  of  Rochesters  Poems.  8°  sh.  2-     00-4-0 

Poems  on  Several  Occasions.  Written  by  a  late  person 
of  honour  [John  Wilmot,  Earl  of  Rochester] .  Lon- 
don, 1685. 

30  Hoolls  Corderius.  8°  sh.  1-6     02-5-0 

M.  Corderius's  school-colloquies.  English  and  Latin. 
...  By  Charles  Hoole.  1659.  An  edition  of  1676 
is  in  the  American  Antiquarian  Society. 

6  Greek  Testaments.  12°  sh.  1-4     00-8-0 

'H  KaivT)  ^laO-qK-rj.  Novum  Testamentum.  Huic  editioni 
omnia  difiicilorum  Vocabulorum  Themata,  quae  in 
Georgii  Pasoris  Lexico  Grammatice  resolvuntur,  in 
margineapposuit  Carolus Hoole.  Issued,  in  1 674,  for 
S.Mearne,  etc.  Catalogue  price,  35.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  174. 

3  Rauerius  Practice  of  Physick.  fol.  Ca.  15-     02-5-0 

The  practice  of  Physick,  in  Seventeen  several  Books. 
Written  by  Lazarus  Riverius,  sometime  Physician 
to  the  King  of  France.  Wherein  is  plainly  set  forth 
the  nature,  cause,  differences,  and  several  sorts  of 
signs ;  together  with  the  cure  of  all  Diseases  in  the 
body,  Englished  by  Nicholas  Culpeper,  Abdiah 
Cole,  and  W.  Rowland.  Price,  1  /.  2  5.  Printed,  in 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

1672,  for  George  Sawbridge  on  Ludgate  Hill.  Term 
Catalogues  (Avhev) J  I.  122. 

6  Sellers  Epittomie  of  Astronomical  Systems. 

12°  Ca.  5-6     01-13-    0 

?  Atlas  Caelestis,  containing  the  systems  and  theory es 
of  the  planets,  the  constellations  of  the  Starrs,  and 
other  phenomian's  of  the  heavens,  with  necessary 
tables  relating  thereto.  [London,  1677.]  B.  M.  It 
has  an  engraved  title-page,  colored,  and  colored  dia- 
grams, which  may  account  for  the  price. 

4  Miltons  Paradise  Lost.  S""  sh.  2-00-8-0 

Fii'st  issued  in  1667.  The  third  edition  was  issued  in 
1678,  and  the  fourth  in  1688.  Mention  is  made  of 
an  issue  in  1 674,  price,  3  5.,  in  the  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber) ,  i.  1 8 1 . 

40  Strongs  Spelling  booke.  8°  sh.  -9     01-10-0 

England's  perfect  School-master,  or  Directions  for 
exact  Spelling,  Reading,  and  Writing.  Shewing  how 
to  spell,  or  read,  any  Chapter  in  the  Bible  by  twenty- 
four  Words  only.  With  Examples  of  most  Woixls 
from  one  to  six  Syllables,  both  in  whole  Words,  and 
also  divided.  Also  how  to  spell  all  such  Words  which 
are  alike  in  Sound,  yet  differ  in  their  Sense  and  Spell- 
ing, Together  with  the  true  Meaning  and  Use  of  all 
Stops  and  Points .  With  a  Table  of  Orthography ,  with 
several  Copies  of  the  most  usual  Hands,  engraven  in 
Copper.  As  also.  Variety  of  Pieces,  both  English  and 
Latin  Veree,  on  the  most  remarkable  Passages  in 
Scripture.  Lastly,  Directions  for  writing  Letters ;  Ac- 
quittances ;  Bills  of  Exchange,  of  Parcels,  of  Debts ; 
Bonds,  etc.  By  Nathaniel  Strong,  School-master  in 
London.  The  third  edition  was  printed  in  1 682,  for 
B.  Billingsley  at  the  '  Printing  Press '  in  Comhill.  The 
catalogue  price  was  1  s.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) , 
I.  477. 

5  Sheppards  Sincere  Conuert.  8°  sh.       1-2     00  -    5-10 

The  sincere  Convert ;  discovering  the  paucity  of  true 
believers,  and  the  great  difficulty  of  saving  conver- 
sion. By  Thomas  Shepard.  London,  1641.  It  passed 

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through  five  editions  by  1659,  when  'The  Saints' 
Jewel '  was  added,  with  a  new  edition  in  1672. 

50  New  England  Psalmes.  12°  sh.  1-     02-10-0 

The  Psalms^  Hymns,  and  Spiritual  Songs  of  the  Old 
and  New  Testament^  faithfully  translated  into  Eng- 
lish Metre,  for  the  Use,  Edification,  and  Comfort, 
of  all  Christians,  publick  and  private ;  especially  in 
New  England.  Printed,  in  1 67 1 ,  for  Robert  Chiswell 
at  the  Two  Angels  and  Crown  in  Little  Britain.  Cat- 
alogue price,  18  c?.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  75. 

1  Bible  4°  Oxon  with  Common  prayer  and  ' 

Apockchryphia.  Ca.  Clasps.  00  -  10  -    0 

100  Sententiae  Pueriles.  8°  sh.  -2     00-16-0 

In  1 683  J.  Wright  issued  '  The  Accidence'  (see  page 
149,  infra) ^  in  which  one  part  bore  this  title. 

50  Latine  Catos.  8°  sh.  -3     00-12-6 

40  Ouid  de  Tristibus.  8°  sh.  -3>^     00  -  11  -    8 

Ovid's  Tristia;  containing  Five  Books  of  Mournful 
Elegies,  which  he  sweetly  composed  in  the  midst  of 
his  Adversity,  while  he  lived  in  Tomos,  a  City  of 
Ponhis,  where  he  dyed  after  seven  yeare  Banishment 
from  Borne.  Translated  into  English  by  W[ye] 
S[altonstall] .  A  fifth  edition  appeared  in  1  68 1 .  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  446. 

6  Meads  Almost  Christian.  12°  sh.  -7     00-3-6 

*Ei/  oXiyo)  X/aicTToxvos.  The  Almost  Christian  discovered, 
or  the  false  professor  tried  and  cast.  Being  the  sub- 
stance of  seven  Sermons  .  .  .  preached  .  .  .  1661. 
By  Matthew  Mead.  London,  1662.  The  sixth  edi- 
tion was  issued  in  1  679,  a  seventh  in  1681,  and  an 
eighth  in  1684.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  354; 
II.  2  I . 

12  Erasmus  Colloquies  Latin.  12°  sh.  1-3  00  -  15  -  0 
Issued  in  Florence  in  1 5  3 1 .  An  edition  appeared  in  Lon- 
don, edited  by  J.  Clarke,  in  1 676,  and  this  is  the  only 
English  imprint  of  the  '  Colloquia '  in  the  British 
Museum  Catalogue.  The  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  73,  for  1671,  announced   an  English  vereion  of 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

*The  Colloquies,'  made  by  H.M.,  and  in  1683, 
Ibid.^  II.  52,  a  Latin  issue. 

6  Lestranges  Erasmus  in  English.  8°  sh.  2-     00  -  12  -    0 

Twenty  select  Colloquies  out  of  Erasmus  Roteroda- 

mus,    pleasantly  representing  several  superstitious 

-  Levities  that  were  crept  into  the  Church  of  Rome 

in  his  days.  Made  English  by  R[oger]  L'Estmnge. 

London,  1680.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  374. 

1  Baker's  Chronicle,  fol.  Ca.  00-12-0 

A  chronicle  of  the  Kings  of  England  from  the  time  of 
the  Romans  government  unto  the  i-aign  of  our  sov- 
eraigne  Loixi  King  Charles,  etc.  By  Richard  Baker. 
London,  1643.  The  seventh  impression  was  dated 
1679.  For  full  title  see  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  344. 

3  Doz.  Brass  Compasses  largest  sorte  12.  per 

Doz.  01-16-    0 

In  the  Term  Catalogues  for  1 672  (Arber),  i.  100,  will 
be  found  the  advertisement  of  John  Seller,  of  Ex- 
change Alley,  in  Cornhill,  hydrographer  to  the  King, 
giving  a  list  of  mathematical  and  other  instruments 
in  use. 

3  Wilsons  Christian  Dictionary,  fol.  Ca.  15-  02-5-0 
A  Christian  Dictionary.  Opening  the  significations  of 
the  chiefe  words  dispei-sed  generally  through  Holy 
Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments.  By 
Thomas  Wilson.  The  fourth  edition,  added  to  by  J. 
Bagwell,  is  assigned  to  1 640.  An  eighth  edition beare 
date  1678.  See  Term  Catalogues  (Avher),  i.  323. 

20  Foxes  End  of  Time.  12°  sh.  -7     00  -  11  -    8 

Time  and  the  End  of  time ;  or,  two  discoui*ses :  the 
first  about  redemption  of  time,  the  second  about  con- 
sideration of  our  latter  end.  London,  printed  for  G. 
Calvert  at  the  Ball  in  Duck  Lane.  1 670.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  13.  Two  editions,  without  dates, 
are  assigned  to  1 680.'  The  author,  John  Fox,  must 
be  distinguished  from  the  martyrologist. 

8  Pounds  of  Vermillion  with  Box.  5-     02-0-6 

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1  Dutch  Annotations  in  2  Vol.  fol.  Ca.  01  -  15  -    0 

The  Dutch  Annotations  upon  the  whole  Bible  .  .  . 
as  .  .  .  ordered  and  appointed  by  the  Synod  of  Dort, 
1618,  and  published  by  authority,  1637.  Translated 
by  Theodore  Haak.  Entered  for  publication  Septem- 
ber, 1657.  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and  Riving- 
ton),  II.  147. 

2  Supplement  to  the  Morning  Exercise.  4° .  Ca. 

7-  00-14-0 
A  Supplement  to  the  Morning- Exercise  at  Cripple- 
gate  :  being  several  more  Cases  of  Conscience  prac- 
tically Resolved  by  sundry  Ministers.  Sold  by  Thomas 
Cockerill  at  the  Atlas  in  Cornhill.  1 674.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  176,  240.  The  price  in  the  cata- 
logue was  10  shillings.  See  page  \  65^  infra. 

1  Pembrooks  Arcadia,  fol.  Ca.  00-10-6 

The  Countess  of  Pembroke's  'Arcadia.'  Written  by 
Sir  Philip  Sidney,  Knight.  The  Thirteenth  Edition. 
With  his  Life  and  Death  ;  a  brief  Table  of  the  prin- 
cipal heads ;  and  some  other  new  Additions.  Printed, 
in  1674,  for  George  Calvert  at  the  Golden  Ball  in 
Little  Britain.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  174. 

1  Keebles  Statutes  last  Edit.  fol.  Ca.  02-8-0 

Statutes  at  Large,  in  paragraphs  and  sections  or  num- 
bers, from  Magna  Charta  until  this  time  [1681].  By 
Joseph  Keble.  1684.  Two  earlier  issues  were  made, 
in  1676  and  1681.  See  Dictionary  of  National  Bi- 
ography.^ XXX.  295.  'There  is  new  printed.  The 
Statutes  at  large.  .  .  .  Together  with  the  Heads  of 
Pulton's,  or  Rastell's  Abridgements  in  the  Margin; 
and  the  Addition  of  about  a  thousand  new  Refer- 
ences from  other  Books  of  Law.'  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  468. 

2  Queued  OS  Visions  Compl.  both  parts.  8°  sh. 

4-3     00-12-    9 

The  Visions  of  Dom  (Francisco)  [Gomez]  de  Que- 

vedo  Villegas,  Knight  of  the  Order  of  S.  James.,  made 

English  by  R.  L.  The  sixth  edition  was  printed  in 

1678  for  H.  Herringman  at  the  Blue  Anchor  in  the 

C    125   ] 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

New  Exchange.  The  second  part  appeared  in  1 682, 
printed  for  W.  Thackeray,  etc.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),i.  324,  476. 

3  Cambridge  Concordance,  fol.  Ca.       11-6      01-14-    6 

A  Concordance  to  the  Holy  Scriptures  ;  with  the  va- 
rious Readings  both  of  Text  and  Margin.  In  a  more 
exact  Method  than  hath  hitherto  been  extant.  By 
S[amuel]  N[ewman].  Price,  1 6  s.  Announced  in  the 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  113. 

30  Nomen  Claturas  8°  sh  -4     00  -  10  -    0 

Nomenclatura  Brevis,  etc.  In  usum  Scholae  Westmo- 
nasteriensis.  Sold  by  Nathaniel  Ranew.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber) ,  i.  182.  Another  is  mentioned  in  Ihid. , 

242. 

10  Dugards  Rhetorick.  8°  sh.  -3>^     00  -    2-15 

Rhetorices  Elementa  quaestionibus  et  responsionibus 
explicata.  By  William  Dugard.  A  seventh  edition 
was  printed  in  1 673.  See  Dictionary  of  National  Bi- 
ography^ XVI.  1 33  ;  Term  Catalogues (Arher),  i.  138. 

10  Smiths  Rhetorick.  8°  sh.  1-9     00-17-    6 

The  Mystery  of  Rhetorick  unvailed  :  wherein  above 
1 30  of  the  Tropes  and  Figures  are  severally  divided 
from  the  Greek  into  English ;  together  with  lively 
definitions  and  variety  of  Latine,  English,  and  Scrip- 
tural Examples.  By  John  Smith,  Gent.  Printed  in 
1673.  Price,  2  s.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  15  7. 

4  Ames  Cases  of  Contience  in  Lat.  12°  sh. 

1-6     00-6-0 
De  Conscientia,  ejus  Jure  et  Casibus.  1 632.  By  Wil-. 
liam  Ames.  See  Dictionary  of  National  Biography ^ 
1.355. 

10  Hookers  Doubting  Christian.  12°  sh.-7j4  00  -  6  -  3 
The  Poor  doubting  Christian  drawn  to  Christ;  wherein 
the  main  lets  and  hinderances  which  keep  men  from 
coming  to  Christ  zv^  discovered.  By  Thomas  Hooker. 
Printed ,  in  1 6  74 ,  for  N .  Ranew  and  J .  Robinson .  Cata- 
logue price,  one  shilling.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) , 
1.  166. 

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Appendices 

1  Gutberleths  Physick.  8°  bd.  00-0-10 
10  Lattine  Testaments.  24°  sh.  1-  00-10-0 
18  Greek  Grammars.  8°  sh.                    1-1     00-19-6 

3  WoIlebeusCompendiuminLat.l2°bd.l-2     00-    3-    6 

See  page  143,  infra. 

30  Token  for  Children  Compl.  12°  sh.  -8  01-0-0 
A  Token  for  Children  ;  being  an  exact  account  of  the 
conversion,  holy  and  exemplary  lives,  and  joyful 
deaths,  of  several  young  Children.  By  James  Jane- 
way.  First  and  Second  Parts.  Price,  1  s.  Printed, 
1672,  and  sold  by  Benjamin  Foster  at  the  Three 
Flower  de  luces  in  the  Poultrey.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  122. 

2  Burroughs  Gospel  worship.  4°  sh.      3-9     00-    7-    6 

Gospel- Worship ;  or  the  right  manner  of  sanctifying 
the  name  of  God  in  generall :  and  particularly  in  these 
three  great  ordinances,  viz.  1 .  Hearing  the  Word ; 
2.  Receiving  the  Lord's  Supper;  Prayer.  London, 
1648.  By  Jeremiah  Burroughs.  B.M. 

12  Norwoods  Epittomy.  8°  sh  1-00-12-0 

Norwood's  Epitome.  An  application  of  the  Doctrine 
of  Triangles  in  the  use  of  the  plain  Sea-Chart,  and 
Mercator's  Chart ;  with  Tables  and  Artificial  Sines 
and  Tangents,  etc.  Also  Logarithms  for  one  to  a  thou- 
sand, with  the  Tables  of  the  Sun's  right  Ascension 
and  Declination ;  and  of  the  principal  Fixed  Stare ; 
also  an  universal  Almanack.  Newly  revised  and  cor- 
rected by  Richard  Norwood.  Printed,  in  1678,  for 
W.  Fisher,  R.  Boulter,  T.  Passenger,  and  R.  Smith. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  337. 

[^2^  More  sold  to  Mr.  John  lue 
March  3,  1683-84 

12  Gouges  Youngmans  Guide  with  Safe  way 

of  Thriueing.  8°  sh.  1-6     00  -  18  -    0 

The  Young  Man's  Guide,  through  the  Wilderness  of 
this  World,  to  the  Heavenly  Canaan;  shewing  him 

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The  Boston  Book  Market 

how  to  carry  himself  Christian-like  in  the  whole 
Course  of  his  Life.  By  Thomas  Gouge.  Printed,  in 
1  670,  for  P.  Parker  in  Pope'sHead  Alley.  Catalogue 
price,  \s.  6d.  Another  issue  was  made  in  1676,  by 
John  Hancock,  price,  1  s.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  48,239. 

12 Directions.  8°  sh.  1-2     00-14-    0 

Christian  Directions ;  shewing  how  to  walk  with  God 
all  the  day  long.  Issued,  in  1  679,  for  John  Hancock 
at  the  Three  Bibles  in  Cornhill^  next  to  Pope's  Head 
Alley .  Term  Catalogues  (Arhev)^  i.  378. 

3  Accademy  of  Compliments.  12 ""  sh.       1-     00-3-0 
See  page  114,  supra. 

5  Jane  ways  Life.  8°  sh.  -8     00-3-4 

See  page  101,  supra. 

6  Nuga  Uenales.  12°  bd.  1-3     00-7-6 

Nuga  Venales,  or  The  Complaisant  Companion;  being 
new  Jests  Domestick  and  Foreign,  Bulls,  Rhodomon- 
tades,  pleasant  Novels,  and  Miscellanies.  The  second 
edition,  issued,  in  1675,  for  Nicholas  Cox  in  Hol- 
bom.  Term  Catalogues  {Arher),i.  213. 

3  Cotton  on  the  Couenant.  8°  sh.  1-2     00-3-6 

See  page  94,  supra. 

12  Warr  with  the  Deuill.  8°  sh.  -7     00-7-0 

War  with  the  Devil,  or  The  Young  man's  conflict  with 
the  powers  of  Darkness.  In  a  Dialogue,  discovering 
the  corruption  and  vanity  of  youth,  and  the  horrible 
nature  of  sin,  and  deplorable  condition  of  fallen  man : 
also  a  definition  [of  the]  power  and  rule  of  Con- 
science, and  the  nature  of  true  Conversion.  With  an 
Appendix,  containing  a  Dialogue  between  an  old 
Apostate  and  a  young  Professour.  The  Fifth  Impres- 
sion [l  678]  :  to  which  is  now  added  a  Second  Part 
by  the  same  Author  B.  Keach.  Printed  for  B.  Harris 
at  the  Stationers*  Arms  in  Sweeting's  Rents.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  305. 

2  Burroughs  Gospel  worship.  4°  sh.  2-     00-4-0 

See  page  127,  supra. 


Appendices 


3  Present  State  of  England.  Comp.  all  parts, 

each  Sett  in  2  vol.  12°  Ca.  8-     01-4-0 

Angliae  Notitia:  or  the  present  State  of  England. 

London,  1 669.  The  second  part  appeared  in  1671, 

and  the  thiixl  and  fourth  parts  were  printed  by  W. 

Whit  wood  in  1683.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii. 

30  ;  B .  M.  Not  until  the  seventeenth  edition ,  in  1 69  2 , 

could  the  three  parts  be  had  in  one  volume. 

4  Jure  Maritimo.  8°  bd.  4-     00-16-0 

See  page  144,  infra. 

2  Clarks  Lines  of  the  Fathers,  fol.  Ca.   18-     01  -  16  -    0 

The  marrow  of  Ecclesiastical  historie  conteined  in  the 
lives  of  the  Fathers  and  other  learned  men  and  famous 
divines,  which  have  flourished  in  the  church  since 
Christ's  time  to  the  present  time.  By  Samuel  Clarke. 
The  third  edition,  containing  two  parts,  was  printed 
at  London,  in  1675.  B.  M. 

2  Sturmies  Mariners  Magazine,  fol.  Ca.  11-6     01  -    3  -    0 

The  Mariner's  Magazine  stored  with  these  Mathemat- 
ical Arts,  Navigation,  Geometry,  the  making  and  use 
of  divers  Mathematical  Instruments,  the  Doctrine 
of  Triangles,  sayling  by  the  plain  Chart,  Mercalor's 
Chart,  and  the  Arch  of  the  great  Circle.  The  Arts 
of  Surveying,  Gauging,  Measuring,  Gunnery,  As- 
tronomy, Dialling,  etc.  Also  Tables  of  Logarithms, 
and  of  the  Sun's  Declination,  Latitude,  Longitude, 
right  ascension  and  declination  of  the  most  notable 
fixed  Stars,  Latitude  and  Longitude  of  places :  with 
an  abridgement  of  the  Laws  relating  to  the  Customs 
and  Navigation ;  and  a  Compend  of  Fortification.  By 
Captain  Samuel  Sturmy.  The  second  edition,  1  678, 
revised  and  corrected  by  John  Colson.  Printed  for 
W.  Fisher,  etc.  An  earlier  issue  was  made  in  1  669. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  13,  337. 

18  Dr.  Faustus.  1st  and  2d  pt.  4°  sh.     -8     00-12-0 
The  History  of  the  Damnable  Life  and  deserved  Death 
of  Dr.  John  Faustus ;  now  newly  Printed.  Issued,  in 
1677,  for  T.  Sawbridge.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  285. 


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18  Calamys  Godlymans  Arke  12°  sh.  -7  00-10-6 
The  Godly  Man's  Ark,  or  City  of  Refuge  in  the  day 
of  Distress,  discovered  in  divers  Sermons :  the  First 
of  w^hich  was  preached  at  the  Funeral  of  Mrs.  Eliz. 
Moore;  the  other  four  were  afterwards  preached.  All 
of  them  now  made  publick  for  the  supporting  and 
Consolation  of  the  Saints  of  God  in  the  Hour  of  Trib- 
ulation. By  Edmund  Calamy .  The  eighth  edition  was 
printed  by  T.  Parkhui-st  in  1683.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  I.  354;  ii.  21. 

6  Brookes  Arke.  8°  sh.  2-2     00  -  13  -    0 

See  page  89,  supra. 

6  Wilds  Poems.  8°  sh.  -9     00-4-6 

6  Argulus  and  Parthenia.  12°  sh.  -9     00-4-6 

See  page  95,  supra. 

3  Tanners  Art  of  Physick.  8°  sh.  2-     00-6-0 

The  Hidden  Treasures  of  the  Art  of  Physick  fully  dis- 
covered in  Four  Books.  By  John  Tanner,  Student 
in  Physick  and  Astrology.  Printed  in  1673.  Cata- 
logue price,  2>s.  Term  Catalogues  (Avhev),  i.  130. 

4  Litdetons  Dictionary.  4°  Ca.  11-6     02-6-0 

Linguae  Latinae  Liber  Dictionarius  Quadripartitus. 
By  Adam  Littleton.  Printed,  in  1 678,  for  T.  Basset, 
etc.  The  full  title  is  in  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  301. 

2  Gassendus  Astronimy.  8°  Ca.  Compt.  4-6     00  -    9  -    0 

Institutio  astronomica  juxta  hypotheseis  tam  veterum 
quam  Copernici,  et  Tychonis  dictata  a  P.  Gassendo. 
Seconda  editio.  London,  1653.  A  fifth  edition  was 
printed  in  1675.  B.  M. 

12  Sturmies  Epistles.  8°  sh.  -6     00-6-0 

No  less  than  four  titles  by  Joannes  Sturmius  could 
answer  the  purpose.  See  B.  M.  catalogue. 

2  Bythner  on  the  Psalmes.  4°  Ca.  6-     00-12-0 

Lyra  prophetica  Davidis  Regis,  sive  analysis  critico- 
practica  Psalmorum.  By  Victorinus  Bythner.  Lon- 
don, 1650.  An  edition  was  issued  in  1679.  B.  M. 

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2  Leusdens  Hoi.  Bible.  8°  Ca.  1-2-6     02-5-0 

By  Jan  Leusden.  See  B.  M.  catalogue. 

6  Oxford  Grammars.  8°  sh.  2-2     00-13-0 

5  Oxford  Jests.  12°  sh.  -9     00-3-9 

Oxford  Jests  Refined  and  Enlarged.  Being  a  Collec- 
tion of  witty  Jests,  merry  Tales,  and  pleasant  Joques. 
Composed  and  Collected  by  Capt  William  Hickes. 
Printed,  in  1675,  for  S.  Miller  at  the  Star  at  the 
West  end  of  St.  PauVs.  Catalogue  price,  1  s.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  200. 

13  Rami  Logica.  8°  sh.  -9     00-9-9 

Dialecticae  Libri  Duo,  quibus  Loco  Commentarii  per- 
petui  post  certa  capitia  subjecitur  Gulielmi  Amesii 
Demonstratio  Logicae  verae.  Printed,  in  1673,  for 
W.  Morden  in  Cambridge.  Term  Catalogues  (Ar- 
ber), I.  129.  Petrus  de  la  Ramee  was  the  author. 

16  Culpepers  English  Physitian.  8°  sh.  1-8     01  -    6  -    8 
Issued  in  1653. 

16 Dispensatory s.  8°  sh.  2-4     01-17-    4 

Pharmacopeia  Londinemis,  or  The  London  Dispen- 
satory, further  adorned  by  the  Studies  and  Collec- 
tions of  the  Fellows  now  living  of  the  said  Colledge. 
In  this  impression  you  may  find,  1.  Three  hundred 
useful  additions.  2.  All  the  Notes  that  were  in  the 
Margent  are  brought  into  the  Book.  3.  The  vertues, 
qualities,  and  properties,  of  every  Simple.  4.  The 
Vertue,  and  use,  of  the  Compounds.  5.  Cautions  in 
giving  all  Medicines  that  are  dangerous,  etc.  By  Nich- 
olas Culpeper,  Student  in  Astrology  and  Physick. 
Printed,  in  1 683,  for  H.  Sawbridge.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  55. 

4  DauenportsSaintsAnchorholdl2°sh.-10     00-    3-    4 
The  Saint's  Anchor-hold  in  all  Storms  and  Tem- 
pests. By  John  Davenport.  Preached  in  sundry  ser- 
mons and  published  [by  W.  Hooke  and  J.  Caryl]. 
London,  1661.  B.  M. 


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2  Zouche  Jurisdiction  of  Courts  of  Admiralty. 

8°  sh.  1-9     00-3-6 

The  Jurisdiction  of  the  Admiralty  of  Eng-land  asserted, 
against  Sr.  E.  Coke's  Articuli  Admiralitatis,  in  xxii 
chapter  of  his  jurisdiction  of  courts.  London,  1 663. 
B.  M. 

10  En glishmens  Liberties.  12°  sh.  -9     00-7-6 

?  EngUsh  Liberties,  or  the  free  borne  subjects  inher- 
itance. Entered  by  Benjamin  Harris,  1683,  in  Sta- 
tioners' Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  m.  1 62. 

1  Hebrew  Bible  of  Mannasseth  Ben  Israel  4°  bd.  00  -  1 8  -    0 

1  Idem  of  Uenice  Edition.  4°  bd.  00-14-0 

1  Idem  of  Plantins  Edition.  4°  bd.  01  -    2  -    0 

Terme  Catalogue  No.  13.  14  —     —     — 

Michaelmas  and  Hillary  Terms,  1683-84. 

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Totall  £112-    2-    6 

1.  All  the  books  are  sent  that  could  be  procured. 

2.  Some  few  are  raised  by  reason  of  the  scarcity. 

3 .  All  sorts  of  Hebrew  Bibles  are  scarce  here  and  no  Cheap 
Sorts  to  be  had.  the  number  written  for  is  made  up  of  such 
as  could  be  had  and  they  are  uery  good,  the  Plantins  Edition 
is  one  of  the  exactest  that  euer  was  printed  and  was  always 
wont  to  be  sold  for  30  shillings. 


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VIII 

List  No.  IV 
Sold  to  Mr.  John  Iue,May  29th, 

2  Bibles  24  Ruled  Turkey  gilt  back 
30  Greek  Grammers  8°  st 

3  Bythner  on  the  Psalms  4°  Ca 

6  Sincere  Convert  8°  st 
See  page  122,  supra. 

10  Flauel  on  the  Sacriment  12°  st 
See  page  101,  supra. 

10  Cattechise  12°  st 

2  Cambridge  Concordance  fol.  Ca. 
See  page  126,  supra. 

2  Sellers  Practical  Nauigation  4°  st 
See  page  94,  supra. 

2  Wilsons  Christian  Dictionary  fol.  Ca.  15 

See  page  124,  supra. 

5  Clarks  Tutor  8°  st 

The  Clerk's  Tutor  for  Writing  and  Arithmetick. 
Printed  in  1 670,  and  sold  by  Henry  Twyford.  Price, 
Is. 

4  Burroughs  Gospel  Remission  4°  st         2-     00  .    8  .    0 

Gospel  Remission ;  or,  a  treatise  shewing,  that  true 
blessedness  consists  in  pardon  of  Sin.  By  Jeremiah 
Burroughs.  London,  1668.  B.  M. 

4  State  of  England  in  2  vol  both  parts  12° 

Ca  8-     01  .  12  .    0 

See  page  129,  supra. 

3  Markhams  way  to  get  wealth  4°  Ca.     4-6     00  .  13  .    6 

A  way  to  get  wealthy :  containing  six  principal  Voca- 
tions in  which  every  good  Husband,  or  Housewife, 
may  employ  themselves.  As  First,  the  Nature,  Or- 
dering, Curing,  Breeding,  and  Feeding,  all  sorts  of 

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Cattel.  2.  Knowledge  and  Practise  of  all  Gentleman's 
Recreations.  3.  The  Office  of  a  good  Housewife  in 
Physick,  Chirurgery,  etc.  4.  The  Inrichment  of  the 
Weal  oi  Kent.  5.  Of  inriching  barren  Grounds.  6. 
ThemakingofOrchaixis,  planting  and  gmfting;  with 
the  best  Husbandry  of  Bees,  etc.  By  Gervase  Mark- 
ham.  Printed,  in  1 683,  for  H.  Sawb ridge.  Term  Cat- 
alogues {Kvh^v)^  II.  52. 

2  Eltons  Military  Discipline  fol  Ca^  8-6     00  .  17  .    0 

See  page  144,  infra. 

6  Oxon  Bibles  large  8  °  Ca  Clasps 


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2  Blounts  Law  Dictionary  fol  Ca. 

No/jio-Ae|tKov :  a  Law-Dictionary.  Interpreting  such 
difficult  and  obscure  words  and  terms,  as  are  found 
either  in  our  Common  or  Statute,  Ancient  or  Mod- 
em Lawes,  etc.  By  Thomas  Blount.  London,  1670. 
B.M. 

2  Daltons  Justice  fol.  Ca.  10.     01  .    0  .    0 

See  page  145,  infra. 

50  Lattine  Grammers.  8°  st 

50  Construing  books  8°  st. 

20  Smiths  Great  Assize  12°  sh 
See  page  140,  infra. 

2  History  of  Parismus  4°  st  2-     00  .    4  .    0 

See  page  89,  supra. 

20  Gentle  Craft  4°  st  -5     00  .    8  .    4 

The  pleasant  History  of  the  Gentle  Craft.  A  Discourse 
containing  many  Matters  of  Delight,  very  pleasant 
to  read,  set  forth  with  Pictures,  and  Variety  of  Wit 
and  Mirth.  The  tenth  edition  appeared  in  1 69  6. Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  n.  582. 

10  Gentlemans  Jockey  8°  st  1-6     00  .  15  .    0 

The  Gentleman's  Jockey  and  approved  Farrier ;  in- 
structing in  the  natures.  Causes,  and  Cures,  of  Dis- 

1 4' Very  scarce"  in  margin. 

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eases  incident  to  Horses:  with  an  exact  and  easie 
Method  of  breeding,  buying,  dieting,  and  otherwise 
ordering  of  Horses,  as  well  for  common  use  as  the 
Heats  and  Course.  With  divers  other  Curiosities.  Col- 
lected by  the  long  practice  and  Experience  of  divers 
persons.  The  sixth  edition  was  printed  in  1681,  for 

0.  Blagrove,  etc.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  447. 

5  Uernons  Compting  House.  8°  st.  2-3     00  .  11  .    0 

See  page  113,  supra. 

2  Flauels  Fountaineof  Life  4°  Ca.  6-     00  .  12  .    0 

The  Fountain  of  Life  opened,  or  A  Display  of  Christ 
in  his  essential  and  mediatorial  glory;  wherein  the 
impenetration  of  our  Redemption  by  Jesus  Christ  is 
orderly  unfolded,  as  it  was  begun,  carried  on,  and 
finished,  by  his  Covenant,  Transaction,  Mysterious 
Incarnation,  etc.  By  John  Flavell.  Price,  8  s.  Printed, 
in  1 672 ,  for  Francis  Tyton  in  Fleet  street.  Term  Cat- 
alogues (Arber),  i.  116. 

2 Method  of  Peace.  4°  Ca.  6-     00  .  12  .    0 

The  Method  of  Grace  in  bringing  home  the  Eternal 
Redemption,  contrived  by  the  Father,  and  accom- 
plished by  the  Son,  through  the  effectual  application 
of  the  Spirit  unto  God's  elect :  being  the  Second  Part 
of '  Gospel  Redemption  ' :  wherein  the  great  mystery 
of  our  Union  and  Communion  with  Christ  is  opened 
and  applied,  unbelievere  invited,  false  pretenders 
convicted,  every  man's  Claim  to  Christ  examined, 
and  the  misery  of  Christless  pereons  discovered  and 
bewailed.  By  John  Flavell,  Minister  of  the  Gospel. 
Printed,  in  1680,  for  F.  Tyton.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  414. 

7 Treaty  of  Sufferings.  8°  st.  -9     00  .    5  .    3 

Preparations  for  Sufferings,  or  The  Best  Work  in  the 
Woret  Times;  wherein  the  Necessity,  Excellency, 
and  Means  of  our  readiness  for  Sufferings  are  evinced 
and  prescribed,  our  Call  to  Suffering  cleared,  and  the 
great  Unreadiness  of  many  Professors  bewailed.  By 
John  Flavell,  Minister  of  Christ  in  Devon.  Printed, 
in  1682,  for  R.  Boulter.  Term  Catalogies  (Arber), 

1.  471. 


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3  Norwoods  Doctrine  of  Triangles.  4°  st.  3-6     00  .  10  .    6 
Trig-onometrie,  or  The  Doctrine  of  Triangles ;  divided 
into  Two  Books.  By  Richard  Norwood.  Printed,  in 
1 6  78 ,  for  W .  Fisher  at  the  Postern,  near  Tower  Hill, 
etc.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  316. 

6 Epittomy.  8°  st  1-     00  .    6  .    0 

See  page  12  7,  supra. 

8  Gellibrands  Epittomy.  8°  st.  1-2     00  .    9  .    4 

See  page  143,  infra. 

2  Erly  Religion  a  Sermon.  4°  -5     00  .    0  .  10 

The  title  is  that  of  one  of  Cotton  Mather's  publica- 
tions in  1694.  Evans,  698. 

1  Showers  Ser[mon]  at  Mrs.  Ann  Barnardis- 

ton  fun  [era]  1.  4°  00  .    0  .  05 

Mr.  [John]  Shower's  Sermon  preach 'd  upon  the 
Death  of  Mre.  jlnne  Bamardiston,  Daughter  of  iVa/A. 
Barnardislon,  late  of  Hackney ;  who  departed  this 
Life,  at  the  Age  of  1 7. :  with  an  account  of  her  Life. 
Price,  6  d.  Printed,  in  1683,  for  John  Dunton  at 
the  Black  Raven  in  the  Poultrey.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  n.  12. 

1  Dorringtons  Ser  [mon]  of  the  Right  use  of 

an  Estate.  4°  00  .    0  .    5 

The  right  use  of  an  Estate,  briefly  directed  and  urg'd 
in  a  Sermon  lately  preach'd  to  a  Pereon  of  Quality, 
upon  his  coming  to  be  of  Age.  By  Theophilus  Dor- 
rington.  Price,  6  d.  Printed,  in  1683,  for  T.  Cock- 
erill  at  the  Three  Legs  in  the  Poultrey.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  n.  12. 

1  Demaris  Pearses  Remaines.  8°  st.  00  .    0  .     9 

A  Present  for  Youth  and  Example  for  the  Aged;  or 
The  Remains  of  Damaris  Pearse:  containing  her 
Speech  after  she  kept  her  Bed,  and  a  Copy  of  a  Paper 
she  left  as  her  Legacy  to  her  Brother  and  Sisters : 
together  with  her  Funeral  Sermon.  Printed,  in  1 683, 
for  T.  Parkhurst.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  u.  14. 

C    136  ] 


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1  Memoires  of  the  Fam.  of  the  Stuarts.  8°  st.     00  .     1 

Memoires  of  the  Family  of  the  Stuarts^  and  the  re- 
markable providences  of  God  towards  them ;  in  an 
historical  account  of  the  Lives  of  those  his  Progenitors 
of  that  name,  that  were  Kings  o^  Scotland.  Printed, 
in  1683,  for  W.  Kettilby  at  the  Bishop's  Head  in 
St.  PauVs  Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
II.  15. 

2  Wonders  of  the  Femall  world.  12°  st.   -9     00  .     1 

The  Wonders  of  the  Female  World,  or  A  general 
History  of  Women.  In  Two  Books.  Wherein,  by 
many  hundreds  of  Examples,  is  shewed  what  Woman 
hath  been  from  the  first  Ages  of -the  World  to  these 
Times,  in  respect  of  her  Body,  Senses,  Passions,  Af- 
fections, her  Virtues  and  Perfections,  her  Vices  and 
Defects.  With  an  account  of  the  Sybils,  their  Pro- 
phecies concerning  the  Mutations  of  the  World,  the 
Incarnation  of  our  Saviour,  and  final  Dissolution  of 
the  World.  Collected  from  the  most  approved  His- 
torians, Physicians,  Philosophers,  and  othei-s.  To 
which  is  added,  A  Discourseof  Female  Pre-eminence. 
Printed,  in  1  683,  for  T.  Mai  thus  at  the  Sun  in  the 
Poultrey.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  28. 

1  Her  and  His.  12°  st.  00  .    0 

Haec  et  Hic^  or  The  Feminine  Gender  more  worthy 
than  the  Masculine.  Being  a  Vindication  of  that  in- 
genious and  innocent  Sex  from  the  biting  Sarcasms, 
bitter  Satyrs,  and  opprobrious  Calumnies,  where- 
with they  are  daily,  though  undeservedly,  aspersed 
by  the  virulent  Tongues  and  Pens  of  malevolent  Men ; 
with  many  examples  of  the  rare  Virtues  of  that  noble 
Sex,  in  which  they  have  not  only  equalled,  but  ex- 
celled, most  of  the  other  Sex.  Price,  1  s.  Printed,  in 
1  6  8  3 ,  for  J .  Norris.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  32 . 

10  Second  Part  of  the  Pilgrims  Progress.  12° 

St.  -9     00  .    7 

The  Second  Part  of  the  Pilgrim's  Progi^ess  from  this 
present  World  of  Wickedness  and  misery  to  an 
Eternity  of  Holiness  and  Felicity.  Printed,  in  1683, 

C   137  3 


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forT.  Malthus.  Term  Catalogues {Arher),u.  26.  Ar- 
beradds  the  note"Not  byJ.  Bunyan;  butbyT.S," 

2  Two  Journeys  to  Jerusalem  12°  st.         -9     00  .     1  .     6 

Two  Journeys  to  Jerusalem,  containing,  First,  A 
strange  account  of  the  Travels  of  two  English  Pil- 
grims, and  what  Accidents  befell  them  in  their  Jour- 
ney to  Jerusalem,  Grand  Cairo,  Alexandria,  etc. 
With  the  Wonderful  Manner  of  hatching  thousands 
of  Chickens  at  once  in  Ovens.  Secondly,  The  Trav- 
els of  fourteen  Englishmen,  in  1  669,  from  Scander- 
oon  to  Tripoly,  Joppa,  Ramah,  Jerusalem,  Bethle- 
hem, Jericho,  the  River  Jordan,  the  Lake  of  Sodom 
and  Gommorrah.  By  T.  B.  With  the  Antiquities, 
Monuments,  etc.  To  which  is  added,  A  Relation  of 
the  great  Council  of  the  Jews  in  Hungary,  1650. 
Lastly,  The  final  Extirpation  of  the  Jews  through 
the  Kingdom  of  Persia.  Beautified  with  Pictures. 
Price,  1  5.  Printed,  in  1683,  for  N.  Crouch.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  27. 

200  Pare  of  Clasps  for  writeing  books  00  .  15  .    0 

2  London  Bully  1st  and  2d  p [art]  12°  st.  1-6     00  .    3  .    0 

The  London  Bully,  or  The  Prodigal  Son  ;  displaying 
the  principal  Cheats  of  our  Modern  Debauchees,  with 
the  secret  Practises  and  Cabals  of  the  lewd  Appren- 
tices of  this  Town ;  discovered  in  the  Life  and  Ac- 
tions of  an  Eminent  Citizen's  Son.  Both  parts  ap- 
peared in  1683,  printed  for  T.  Malthus.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  ii.  28,  44. 

3  A  Ramble  to  Hackney.  12°.  st.  -9     00  .    2  .    3 

1  Popes  Life.  8°  st.  00  .    0  .    9 

?  A  Present  for  a  Papist,  or  The  Life  and  Death  of 
Pope  Joan.  Price,  1  s.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i. 

205. 

2  Informers  Doome.  8°  st.  -9     00  .     1  .    6 

The  Informer's  doom,  etc. ;  together  with  the  Dis- 
covery of  the  Knavery  and  Cheats  of  most  Trades 
in  London.  With  sixty  Cuts.  Price,  Is.  Printed,  in 
1683,  for  J.  Dun  ton.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  n. 
19. 

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2  Melius  Inquirendum.  8°  st.  2-9     00  .    8  .    3 

Melius  Inquirendum^  or  A  sober  Inquiry  into  the  Rea- 
sonings of  the  *  Serious  Inquiry ' :  wherein  the  In- 
quirer's cavils  against  the  Principles,  his  Calumnies 
against  the  preachings  and  practices  of  the  Noncon- 
formists are  examined  and  refelled ;  and  St.  Jiugastine^ 
the  Synod  of  Bort^  and  the  Articles  of  the  Church  of 
England.,  in  the  quinquarticular  points,  vindicated. 
The  third  edition  was  printed  in  1681  for  B.  Alsop. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  446. 

2  Sherlocismus  Eneruatus.  8°  Ca.  4-4     00  .    8  .    8 

Anti-Sozzo,  sive  Sherlocismus  Enervatus  ?  in  vindi- 
cation of  some  great  Truths  opposed  ...  by  Mr. 
Wplliam]  Sherlock.  1675.  B.M. 

3  Uenus  in  the  Cloyster.  12°  st.  -9     00  .    2  .    3 

Venus  in  the  Cloyster,  or  The  Nun  in  her  Smock;  in 
curious  Dialogues,  addressed  to  the  Lady  Abbess  of 
Love's  Paradise.  By  the  Abbot  Du  Prat.  Done  out  of 
French.  Price,  1  s.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  n.  19. 

2  Womans  Aduocate.  12°  st.  -9     00  .     1  .    6 

See  page  115,  supra. 

Hogshead  and  Hooping  1 

Cartage  J 

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17. 

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23  . 

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Summ  Totall  £  40  .    3  .    7 

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April  ISth,  1685. 

lb.         8.         d. 

1  Goodwins  Works  in  2  vol.  fol.  Ca.  02-10-    0 

The  Works  of  Thomas  Goodwin,  D.D.,  sometime 
President  of  Magdalen  College  in  Oxford.  The  first 
volume  was  issued  in  1681,  and  the  second  (price, 
24  5.)  in  1683,  by  J.  Robinson  at  the  Golden  Lyon 
in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Cktalogiies  (Arber) , 
I.  437;  u.  11. 

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must  make  a  general  account  of  all  our  actions  be- 
fore Almighty  God.  In  four  Sermons  on  Rev.  20; 
shewing  the  happy  Estate  of  the  Godly,  and  the  wo- 
ful  Condition  of  the  Wicked.  Whereunto  is  annexed. 
Two  Sermons  on  the  Canticles.  By  Samuel  Smith. 
The  twenty-eighth  edition  appeared  in  1680.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  388. 

20  Flauels  Compas  8°sh  1-01-0-0 

Navigation  Spiritualized,  or  A  New  Compass  for  Sea- 
men ;  consisting  of  Thirty-two  Points  of  Pleasant 
Observations,  profitable  Applications,  and  serious 
Reflexions;  all  concluded  with  so  many  spiritual 
Poems.  With  additions.  By  John  Flavell.  Issued  in 
1677.  Price,  Is.  6d.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i. 
296. 

15  Token  for  Mourners  8°  sh         -7     00-8-9 

A  Token  for  Mourners,  or  The  Advice  of  Christ  to 
a  distressed  Mother  bewailing  the  death  of  her  dear 
and  only  Son :  wherein  the  Boundaries  of  Sorrow  are 
duly  fixed,  Excesses  restrained,  the  common  Pleas 
answered,  and  divers  Rules  for  the  support  of  God's 

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afflicted  ones  prescribed.  Printed,  in  1 674,  for  Robert 
Boulter.  Term  Catalogues  (Arher),  i.  176. 

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A  Saint  Indeed,  or  The  great  Work  of  a  Christian 
opened  and  pressed  from  Prov.  4.  23.  By  John  Fla- 
vell.  Printed,  in  1675,  for  R.  Boulter.  Price,  1  5. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  214. 

10  Erasmus  Colloquies  8°  English  Lestrange 

2-     01-0-0 
See  page  123,  supra. 

20  Doolittle  on  the  Sacrament  12°  sh  -7  00-11-8 
A  Treatise  concerning  theLoixi's  Supper.  With  Three 
Dialogues,  for  the  more  full  information  of  the  weak 
in  the  nature  and  use  of  the  Sacrament.  By  Thomas 
Doolittle.  A  fifth  edition,  price  Is.,  was  issued  in 
1670.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  39. 

15  Hookers  Doubting  Christian  12°  sh    -7     00-8-9 
See  page  126,  supra. 

100  Hoolls  Sententia  8°  sh  -5}4     02  -    5-10 

Sententiae  pueriles,  pro  primis  Latinae  linguae  tryo- 
nibus.  By  Leonhard  Culmann,  translated  by  Charles 
Hoole.  London,  1658.  B.  M. 

60 Cases  8°  sh  -5%     01  -    7  -    6 

30  Fox  of  Time  12°  sh  -7     00-17-6 

See  page  124,  supra. 

20  Baxters  Call  12°  sh  -7     00  -  11  -    8 

A  Call  to  the  Unconverted  to  turn  and  live.  By  R[ich- 
ard]  Baxter.  With  the  addition  of  some  Prayers. 
Printed, in  1 674, for Nevil Simmons.  Price,  1  s.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  192. 

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and  the  Opposers  and  Neglectere  convinced  by  the 
Light  of  Scripture  and  Reason.  Printed  in  1677,  and 
sold  by  N.  Simmons.  Catalogue  price,  1  s.  Term  Cat- 
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Ovidii  Metamorphosis.  Cum  notis  Thomae  Farnabii. 
Printed  in  1677.  Term  Catalogues  (Arher),  i.  278. 

12  Hoolls  Terrence  8°  sh 

6  Booke  of  Rates  12°  sh 

30  Warr  with  the  Deuill  8°  sh 

See  page  128,  supra. 

4  Duty  of  Man  12°  sh  1-4     00-5-4 

See  page  167,  infra. 

12  Aristotle's  Problems  8°  sh  -6}4     00-    6-    6 

The  Problems  of  Aristotle,  with  other  Philosophers 
and  Physicians :  wherein  are  contained  divers  Ques- 
tions, with  their  Answers,  touching  the  estate  of 
Man's  body.  Printed,  in  1679,  for  J.  Wright.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  364. 

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30  Token  for  Children  Complt.  12°  sh.     -8     01-0-0 
See  page  127,  supra. 

10  Flaiiel  on  the  Sacrement  12°  sh.       -10     00-8-4 
See  page  101,  supra. 

2  Norton's  Orthodox  EuangeHst  4°  bd.  3-2     00-6-4 

The  Orthodox  Evangelist;  or,  a  Treatise  wherein 
many  great  Evangelical  Truths  .  .  .  are  briefly  dis- 
cussed, cleared,  and  confirmed.  [With  a  preface  by 
John  Cotton.]  London,  1654. 

3  Office  of  Executors  8°  sh  1-9     00  -    5  -    3 

The  Office  and  Duty  of  Executor,  or  A  Treatise  of 
Wills  and  Executoi's,  directed  to  Testatoi-s  in  the 
Choice  of  their  Executore  and  contrivance  of  their 
Wills.  By  Thomas  Wentworth,  of  Lincoln's  Inn. 
To  which  is  added.  An  Appendix,  wherein  are  the 
nature  of  Testaments,  Executore,  Legatories  Gen- 
eral, and  divere  other  material  things  relating  to  the 
same.  By  Thomas  Manley.  Printed,  in  1676,  for 
Henry  Twyfoixl.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  232. 


Appendices 


30  Lillys  Rules  8°  sticht  -3>^     00-    8-    9 

?  A  Synopsis  of  Lilies  Grammar.  The  second  Edition, 
corrected  and  enlarged  by  the  Author.  Price,  4  d. 
Printed,  in  1675,  for  R.  Davis  in  Oxford.  Term  Cat- 
alogues (Arber),  i.  222. 

10  Calamys  Godlymans  Arke  12°  sh       -7     00-5-10 
See  page  130,  supra. 

12  Lattine  Justins  12°  sh  -8     00-8-0 

Justini, exTrogi  Pompeii,  Historiis  externis.  Printed, 
in  1677,  for  William  Whitwood  at  the  Bell  in  Duck 
Lane.  Term  (Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  277. 

18  Tullys  Offices  8°  sh  1-00-18-0 

Tully's  Offices,  in  Three  Books. 

1  Dutch  Annotations  in  2  vol  fol.  Ca.  01  -  12  -    6 

See  page  125,  supra. 

10  Gollibrands  Epittomy  8°  sh  1-2     00  -  11  -    8 

The  Epitome  of  Navigation ;  Containing  the  doctrine 
of  plain  and  Spherical  Triangles,  and  their  use  and 
application  in  plain  sailing,  Mercator's  sailing,  and 
great  Circle  sailing ;  as  also  in  Astronomy  and  Geo- 
ography :  and  Rules  for  finding  the  Variation  of  the 
Compass,  and  correcting  the  Course ;  together  with 
the  tables  of  the  Sun's  and  Stars'  right  Ascension 
and  Declination,  of  the  Latitude  and  Longitude  of 
places.  Likewise  a  Traverse  Table,  a  perpetual  Al- 
manack, and  other  things  very  useful  in  Navigation, 
as  Logarithms,  Sines  and  Tangents,  and  Canons. 
By  Henry  Gellibrand,  late  Professor  of  Astronomy 
in  Gresham  College.  Printed,  in  1 680,  for  W.  Fisher, 
etc.  Term  Catalogues  (^Arher),  i.  410. 

6  Woollebius  Compend:  Lat.  12°  bd.  1-2  00-7-0 
Compendium  Theologiae  Christianae  ...  sic  ador- 
natum,  ut  sit  ad  SS.  Scripturas  legendas,  ad  locos 
communes  digerendos,  ad  controversial  intelligendas, 
manuductio.  By  Joannes  Wollebius  [Cambridge], 
1648.  B.  M. 

4  Lattine  Bible  12°  Ca  5-6     01-2-0 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

8  Flauels  Touchstone  12°  sh.  1-     00-8-0 

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April  13th 

8  Winchester  Phrases  8°  sh.  2-00-16-0 

Scholae  Wiiitoniensis  Phrases  Latinae.  The  Latin 
Phi-ases  of  Winchester  School,  corrected  and  much 
augmented ;  with  Poeticals  added,  and  these  four 
Tracts.  ...  By  Hugh  Robinson.  The  tenth  edition 
was  issued  in  1 68 1 .  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ,  i.  468 . 

2  Glissons  Common  Law  Epitomized  8°  Ca. 

3-9     00-7-6 
See  page  89,  supra. 

8  Jure  Maritimo.  8°  Ca.  4-6     01  -  16  -    0 

De  Jure  Maritimo  et  Navali^  or  A  Treatise  of  Affairs 
Maritime  and  of  Commerce.  In  three  Books.  Price, 
6  s.  Printed,  in  1677,  forR.  Boulter.  The  author 
was  Charles  Molloy.  Term  (Catalogues  (Arber),  i. 
284,  480. 

2  Eltons  Millitary  DiscipHne.  fol.  bd.       9-     00-18-0 

The  Compleat  Body  of  the  Art  Military.  In  Three 
Books.  By  Richard  Elton.  To  which  is  added  a  large 
Supplement  by  Captain  Thomas  Rudd.  Printed  in 
1668.  Term  Catalogues  (Avher),  i.  3. 

3  Barriffs  Millit.  Discipline  with  Horse.  4°  bd. 

4-4     00-13-    0 

See  page  111,  supra. 

40  MarrinersNew  Kallender  4°  sticht    1-     02-0-0 

The  Mariner's  New  Calender;  Containing  the  princi- 
ples of  Arithmetick  and  Geometry,  with  the  extrac- 
tion of  the  Square  and  Cube  root ;  also  rules  for  find- 
ing the  Prime,  Epact,  Moon's  age,  time  of  High 
water,  with  Tables  for-the  same ;  also  the  Sun's  place, 
etc. ,  the  Latitude  and  Longitude ;  description  and  use 
of  the  Sea-Quadrant,  Forestaff,  and  Nocturnal ;  the 
Problems  of  plain  sailing  and  Astronomy,  wrought 

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by  the  Logarithms,  and  by  Gunter's  Scale ;  with  a 
Rudder  for  the  Coasts  of  England^  Scotland^  Ire- 
land^ France^  etc.  By  Nathaniel  Colson,  Student  in  the 
Mathematicks.  Printed,  in  1 675,  for  W.Fisher,  and 
reissued  in  1 680.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  2 11 , 
410. 

4  Ittallian  Conuert  8°  sh  1-     00-4-0 

The  Italian  Convert,  News  from  Italy  of  a  second 
Moses,  or  The  Life  of  Galeazzio  Carraciolo,  the 
Noble  Marquess  of  Vico.  Containing  the  Story  of 
his  admirable  Convei'sion  from  Popery,  and  forsak- 
ing of  a  rich  Marquesdome  for  the  Gospel  sake.  Writ- 
ten first  in  Italian ;  thence  translated  into  Latin  by 
Beza.  And  for  the  benefit  of  our  People  put  into  Eng- 
lish, and  new  published  by  W.  C[rashaw] .  Printed, 
in  1688,  for  A.  Roper  at  the  Bell  in  Fleet  Street. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  u.  241 .  There  must  have 
been  an  earlier  issue,  and  as  early  as  1656  an  edition 
in  Welsh  was  issued.  Stationers'  Registers  (Eyre  and 
Rivington),  ii.  38. 

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scure words  and  terms  of  the  Common  Laws  and 
Statutes  of  the  Realm  now  in  use  expounded  and  ex- 
plained. Newly  corrected  and  enlarged,  with  an  addi- 
tion of  above  an  hundred  terms.  Price,  4s.  Term 
Catalogues  (^Arher) J  I.  76. 

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The  Country  Justice ;  containing  the  Practice  of  the 
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for  the  better  help  of  such  Justices  of  the  Peace  as 
have  not  been  much  conversant  in  the  study  of  the 
Laws  of  the  Realm.  By  Michael  Dalton,  of  Lincoln's 
Inn.  In  this  Impression  is  now  added.  The  Duty  and 
Power  of  Justices  of  the  Peace  in  their  Sessions ;  with 
an  Abridgment  of  all  Statutes  relating  thereunto, 
continued  to  the  year  1682.  Published  in  1682.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  5  17. 

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2  Cooks  Reports  Engl.  fol.  Ca.  1-0-0     02-    0-    0 

The  Reports  of  Sir  Edwai-cl  Coke,  Knight,  late  Loixl 
Chief  Justice  of  England,  of  divers  Resolutions  and 
Judgements  given,  upon  solemn  Arguments  and  with 
great  deliberation,  and  Conference  of  the  most  Rev- 
erend Judges  and  Sages  of  the  Law,  in  cases  in  Law 
which  never  were  resolved  or  adjudged  before  ;  and 
the  reasons  and  causes  of  the  said  Resolutions  and 
Judgements.  The  second  Edition  carefully  compared 
with  the  French,  and  purged  from  former  errors: 
with  a  Table  to  the  whole.  Printed  in  1680.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  424. 

3  Blounts  Law  Dictionary,  fol.  Ca.  7-     01-1-0 

See  page  134,  supra. 

1  Sheppards  Grand  Abridgement  4°Ca.  01-12-    6 

A  Gmnd  Abridgment  of  the  Common  and  Stat- 
ute Law  of  England :  alphabetically  digested  under 
proper  heads.  By  William  Sheppard.  London,  1  675. 
B.  M. 

1  Hobbarts  Reports,  fol.  Ca.  00-8-6 

The  Reports  of  that  Reverend  and  Learned  Judge, 
the  right  HonourableSir  Henry  Hobart.  .  .  .  Purged 
from  the  Errore  of  all  former  Impressions,  and  en- 
larged with  new  Notes  in  the  Margin ;  with  an  exact 
Alphabetical  Table.  Printed  in  1681.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  467. 

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See  page  131,  supra. 

3  Dispensatory.  8°  sh.  2-4  00-    7-    0 

See  page  131,  supra. 

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A  Directory  for  Midwives,  or  A  Guide  for  Women 
in  their  Conception,  Bearing,  and  Suckling,  their 
Children.  Editions  in  1671  and  1684.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  74  ;  ii.  108. 

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10  Greek  Gramers  8°  sh.  1-1     00  -  10  -  10 

20  New  England  Psalmes  12°  sh.  1-2     01-3-4 

See  page  123,  supra. 

3  Miltons  Logick.  8°  sh.  1-6     00-4-6 

Johannis  Miltoni,  Ang-li,  Artis  Logicae  plenior  Insti- 
tutio  ad  Petri  Rami  methodum  concinnati.  Pub- 
lished, in  1673,  for  Robert  Boulter.  Price,  2  s.  Term 
(Catalogues  (Arber) ,  i.  128. 

2  Wingates  Arithmattick.  8°  sh.  3-     00-6-0 

Wingute's  Arithmetick,  containing  a  plain  and  famil- 
iar method  for  attaining  the  knowledge  and  practice 
of  Common  Arithmetick ;  and  since  his  death,  re- 
vised and  much  improved  by  John  Kersey.  Printed, 
in  1 670,  for  John  Williamson.  Price,  4  s.  Term  Cat- 
alogues (Arber),  i.  60.  His  full  name  was  Edmund 
Wingate. 

2  Records  Arithmattick.  8°  sh.  2-6     00-5-0 

First  issued  in  black  letter  in  London,  1543,  and  many 
times  re-issued,  corrected  and  enlarged  by  othere 
than  the  author  —  Robert  Record.  B.  M. 

4  Johnsons  Arithmattick.  12°  sh.  1-6     00-6-0 

Johnson's  Arithmetick  ;  in  Two  Books.  The  First,  of 
Vulgar  Arithmetick.  The  Second,  of  Decimal  Arith- 
metick ;  with  Tables  of  Interest  and  Rebate.  By  John 
Johnson.  Published  in  1671.  Price,  2  s.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  92. 

3  Hodders  Arithmattick.  12°  sh.  -8     00-2-0 

Hodder's  Arithmetic  ;  or  that  necessary  Art  made 
most  easie.  Being  explained  in  a  way  familiar  to  the 
Capacity  of  any  that  desire  to  learn  in  a  little  time. 
By  James  Hodder,  Writing-master.  The  Thirteenth 
Edition,  revised,  augmented,  and  above  a  thousand 
faults  amended,  by  Henry  Mose,  late  Servant  and 
Successor  to  the  Author.  Printed  in  1681.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  446. 

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See  page  129,  supra. 

2  Rochesters  Life.  8°  sh  1-8     00-3-4 

Some  Passages  of  the  Life  and  Death  of  the  late  Earl 
of  Rochester.  Written  by  his  Lordship's  own  direc- 
tions, by  Gilb.  Burnet.  Printed,  in  1 680,  for  R.  Chis- 
well  at  the  Rose  and  Crown  in  St.  PauVs  Church- 
yard. Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  417. 

2  Owen  on  theSd  p[ar]t  fol.  Ca.  16.     01-12-    0 

A  Continuation  of  the  Exposition  of  the  Epistle  of 
Paul  the  Apostle  to  the  Hebrews.  By  John  Owen. 
Printed  in  1680-81  for  N.  Ponder  at  the  Peacock 
in  the  Poultry.  The  full  title  is  given  in  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  435,  and  a  preliminary  announce- 
ment is  in  Ibid.  ,400.  The  second  volume  was  printed 
in  1673.  Ibid.^  146. 

12  Lattine  Terrence.  8°  sh.  -9     00-9-0 

Terentius  Christianus^  sive  Comoediae  Duae  Terentio 
Stylo  conscriptae.  Ad  usum  Scholarum  Seorsum  ex- 
cusae.  Tobaeus^  Juditha.  His  accessit  Pseudostratiotes 
fabula  Jocosa  et  Ludicra.  Authore  Corn.  Sconaeo. 
Printed,  in  1674,  for  the  Company  of  Stationers. 
Price,  \s.  Term  Catalogues  (Avhev),  i.  174. 

3  Amesii  Medulla.  12°  sh.  1-6     00-4-6 

Issued,  in  Latin,  at  Amsterdam  in  1641,  and  trans- 
lated and  published  by  order  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, London,  1642.  By  William  Ames.  B.  M. 

3 de  Conscientia.  12°  sh.  1-6     00-4-6 

See  page  126,  supra. 

3  Litdetons  Dicdonary.  4°  Ca.  11-6     01  -  14  -    6 

See  page  1  30,  supra. 

2  Pulton  of  the  Common  Pleas  Engls.  fol.  bd. 

8-     00-16-0 

5  Sheppards  Sure  Guide.  8°  bd.  3-     00-15-0 

A  Sure  Guide  for  his  Majesties  Justices  of  Peace  .  .  . 
With  the  heads  of  the  Statutes,  concerning  the  doc- 

C   148   ] 


Appendices 


trine  and  cannons  of  the  Church  of  England.  By 
William  Sheppaixl.  London,  1663.  B.  M. 

10  Wonderful  Prodogies.  12°  sh.  -9     00-7-6 

Wonderful  Prodigies  of  Judgment  and  Mercy,  dis- 
cover'd  in  above  three  hundred  memomble  Histo- 
ries. 1 .  Dreadful  Judgments  on  Atheists,  Blasphem- 
ers, Perjur'd  Villains,  etc.  2.  The  miserable  ends 
of  many  Magicians,  Witches,  Conjurors,  etc.  With 
divere  strange  Apparitions  and  Illusions  of  the  Devil. 

3.  Remarkable  predictions  of  approaching  Death. 

4.  The  wicked  Lives  and  woful  Deaths  of  several 
Popes,  Apostates  and  Pereecutors.  5.  Judgments 
upon  bloody  Tyrants,  Murderere,  etc.  6.  Admirable 
Deliverances  from  imminent  Dangere,  both  at  Sea 
and  Land.  Lastly,  Divine  Goodness  to  Penitents; 
with  the  dying  Thoughts  of  several  famous  men  con- 
cerning a  future  state.  Imbellished  with  Pictures. 
Price,  Is.  Printed, in  1683, for  N.  Crouch  at  the  Bell 
in  the  Poultry.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  31. 

|^3j  More  to  Mr.  John  Iiie 

April  ISth 

20  Accidencies.  4°  sticht.  -3}4     00  -    5-10 

The  Accidence,  in  Questions  and  Answers ;  explained, 
amended,  abridged,  and  fitted  to  the  Capacity  and 
use  of  the  lowest  Forms.  Being  an  Introduction  into 
useful  Learning,  from  Lettere  to  Syllables,  Syllables 
to  Words,  Words  to  Sentences,  I.  single;  2.  com- 
pounded :  where  is  added,  An  account  of  the  Trans- 
position and  most  usual  Ellipses  of  Words  in  a  Sen- 
tence. By  perpetual,  plain,  easie,  necessary, Examples 
to  be  imitated.  Rules  to  direct.  Exercises  to  ascertain 
the  Imitation.  Into  which  is  inserted,  1 .  A  Vocabu- 
lary of  English  and  Latin  Words,  under  each  part 
of  Speech,  reduced  into  tolerable  Order.  2 .  Sententiae 
Pueriles;  consisting  of  the  same  Words,  reduced  into 
plain  Sentences  under  every  Syntactick  Rule.  Printed, 
in  1683,  for  J.  Wright  at  the  Crown  on  Ludgate 
Hill.  Term  Catalogues  (Avhev),  n.  33. 

[    149   ] 


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10  Dugards  Rhetorick.  8°  sticht         -3^     00  -    2-11 
See  page  126,  supra. 

15  Nomen  Claturas.  8°  Sticht.  -4>^     00-    5-    7>^ 

See  page  126,  supra. 

6  Bonds  Horrace.  12°  Sticht.  1-     00-6-0 

See  page  88,  supra. 

3  Greek  Testaments  24°  sh.  1-6     00-    4-    6 

20  Protestant  Tutors,  sh.  -4>^     00-    7-    6 

Printed  by  Benjamin  Harris.  It  is  not  listed  in  the 
Term  Catalogues.  See  pages  32,  35,  supra. 

3  Clarkes  Phrases.  8°  bd.  1-9     00-5-3 

?  Phraseologia  Puerilis,  Anglo-Latina,  ...  or  selected 
Latine  and  English  Phrases.  By  John  Clarke.  Lon- 
don, 1638.  B.M. 

2  Poolls  Annotations  on  the  Bible  in  English. 

2d  vol.  fol.  Ca.  1-5-0     02-10-    0 

An  announcement  at  great  length  of  the  firet  volume 
of  Matthew  Poole's  Annotations  is  in  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  i.  500.  It  was  published  in  1683,  and 
proposals  were  invited  for  the  second  volume,  which 
was  "in  the  several  presses'*  in  1684.  Ibid.,  ii.  22, 
79. 

6  Siluanus  his  Theocritus.  12°  sh         -10     00-5-0 
The  Term  Catalogues  (Arher),  i.  387,  give  the  issue, 
in  1680,  of  two  orations  of  Isocrates,  prepared  by 
George  Sylvanus ;  but  make  no  mention  of  a  Theo- 
critus. 

1 Lucian.  12°  sh. 


1 Isocratis.  12°  sh. 

1 Essopi  Fabula.  12°  sh. 


00-    0-    0 


Mythologia  ^Esopica.  Printed  in  1683.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  ii.  5. 

Plutarck.  12°  sh. 


Term  Cattalouge  No.  15.  16.  17.  18.  00-0-0 

From  Easter  Term,  1684,  to  Hillary  Term,  1684-85. 


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Appendices 


Stationary  Ware  as  per  bill 
1  Hogshead  and  Barrell 

FollioNoS. 
From  Follio  No.  2. 
Fol.  No.  1. 


19-4- 

0 

00  -  10  - 

0 

24-6- 

7K 

29-13- 

9 

27-12- 

8 

81-13 


oK 


lb. 

*. 

d. 

£    1 

:     8 

:  — 

£    1 

16 

£    1 

1 

— 

£  10 

16 

— 

£    2 

0 

£    1 

8 

— 

£  — 

15 

£19 

4 

Soold  to  Mr.  John  Jues:  the  [     ]  Aprill,  1685 


4  :  Doz.  parchments  at  7/6  per  doz 

2  :  Doz  drumheads  at  18  per  doz 

3  :  Doz  penkniues  at  7  per  doz 

6  :  Gross  Inkhornes  at  36 :  per  Gro 

4  :  Thousand  2  d  quills  at  10  :  per  M 
2  :  Reames  Cartridge  at  14  :  per  Rea  : 
2  :  Reames  fooles  Cap  at  7 :  6  a? 


These  are  all  the  books  mentioned  in  the  Inuoyce  sent  that 
could  be  printed.  The  Dutch  Annotations  is  somewhat  cheaper 
than  the  last  because  not  soe  faire  a  book,  but  tis  uery  scarce 
and  a  Fairer  could  not  be  had  at  present.  Schreuelius  Lexicon 
of  a  new  Edition  is  almost  finished  and  may  be  sent  per  next 
shipping.  There  is  not  one  New  England  Primmer  in  London, 
if  they  will  Take  of  Ten  Gross  and  send  ouer  a  book  to  print 
it  by  they  may  be  furnished  less  then  that  Number  will  not 
Answer  the  Charge.  Hughs  Grand  Abridgment  of  the  Law 
is  not  to  be  had  but  Instead  of  it  Sheppards  Grand  Abridg- 
ment is  sent  which  is  later  written  and  Accounted  better. 
Owens  4th  part  on  the  Hebrews  is  not  yet  printed.  Pulton 
neuer  wrote  any  book  of  the  Common  Pleas  nor  any  other 

c  151  : 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

books  but  the  Collection  of  Statutes  and  de  Pace  Regni  et 
Regis  which  I  take  to  be  the  booke  meant  and  accordingly 
sent.  Poole's  Second  Volume  of  Annotations  on  the  Bible  being 
come  forth  since  the  last  books  were  sent  it  was  supposed  they 
would  be  uery  acceptable  to  such  as  had  bought  the  first.  The 
4  books  of  Syluanus  are  sent  as  a  present  to  the  Chief  School- 
master in  New  England  being  a  New  Praxis  upon  some  Greek 
Authors  which  is  well  entertained  in  our  Schooles  here  and 
much  used. 


C    152    ] 


Appendices 

X 

Account  against  Thomas  Newton 


1688 

Decb'.  21 

To  cash  lent  him  then 

£12. 

Jan'' 

To  more 

£  5  . 

1689 

July  3^ 

To  the  1st  Vol.  of  Cooke  upon  Lit- 
tleton                                  1.18.- 
1  Booke  of  Rates                  0  .    4  .  - 
Hobarts  Reports                0  .  16  .  - 
Dyers  Reports                   1  .    6  .  - 
Finches  Law                      0  .    5  .  - 

Octob  30 

Poulton  De  Pace  Regis 

et  Regni                             0  .  13  .  - 

To  Plutarchs  Lives  in  5  voll.  8° 

£  5. 

£  2. 

,  2 

Jarf  27 

To  2  qrs  Paper  at  10  d 

£  -. 

.  1 

1690 

Jan'-'  3 

To  1  Sanders  Reports      2  .    0.0 

1  Terms  of  the  Law           -  .    8.0 

£  2  , 

.  8 

May  15. 

To  1  Daltons  officium  Vice-comitum 

£  1  . 

.  4 

1691 

June  9 

To  1  qr  Prest  Royall         -  .    6  .  - 

1692 

Aug\  24 

To  1  Ars  Cleri- 
calis                  -.2.6 
1  Practice  of 
the    Court 
of  Chan- 
cery                 -  .  2  .  - 
\   153   I 

The  Boston  Book  Market 


1  Killburns 
Presidents 

-.5.6 

1  Regular 
Placetandi 

-.  5  .-      -. 

15 

Sept.   9 

To  1  Skin  Parchmt 

,    2 

1693 
May  13 

To  1  Skin  of  Parchmt      -  . 

,     1 

July   14 

To  1  Skin  of  Parchmt 
small                -.1.4 

1  ditto  large 

-.  2  .- 

18 

1  small  ditto 

-.1.6 

21 

3  Large  ditto 
at  2^ 

-.  6.- 

31 

1  Skin  Large 
Parchmt 

-.2  .- 

1  Small  ditto 

-.1.6 

AugK  3 

1  Skin  of 
Parchmt 

-.1.4     0. 

15 

1694 
AugK  28 

To  1  Sett  of; 

^earBookes   9  . 

— 

Nov\ 


To  Indian  Accot.  per  or- 
der of  Wm.  Stoughton 
Esqr.  20 

To  Cash  5 

To  1  Bridgmans  Con- 
veyances 


3  .- 


34  .  3  .  - 

1 
£65  .  6 . 4 


[   154  ] 


Appendices 


1696 


XI 

Pembrook's  ^  Account 

Mr.  Elkanah  Pembrook,  Dr 

for  Ball,  of  Last 

Acco'tt 
4  dos.  primers  att  4/8    0 
4  fox  on  time  l/6 
4  Aleins  Alarm  att  2/    0 
4  doolittles  Sacre- 

ments  18^ 
4  Rm  paper 
6  Protestant  Tutors 

att  9d 
2  Vincents  Catechism 
1  Practice  of  piety 

1  Shepards  beleiver 
4  pilgrims  Proggress 

att  16  fl^ 

2  Grays  Christian 
Warefare 

1  Witts  Recreations 
1 Cabbinett 


20  :  — 


0 

'18 

0 

0 

6 

0 

0 

8 

0 

0 

5 

4 

4 

0 

0 

0 

4 

:  6 

0 

:     3 

:  4 

0 

3 

:0 

0 

:     3 

:  0 

0:     5:4 


2  flavells  Saint  Indeed 
6  psalters 
6  Youngs  Spelling 
book 


2  :6 

2  :  6 

1  :  6 

2  :  6 


9  :  0 


1  doz  and  %  Spectacles  0  :  10 


^  One  of  the  founders  of  Brattle  Street  Church,  and  in  1699a  bookseller  in 
Boston,  with  a  shop  **near  the  head  of  the  Dock." 

C   155  3 


The  Boston  Book  Market 


Sept.  7: 


Jan:  21: 


22; 


feb:  5 


6: 


4  doz  Inkhorns  att  4/ 

0 

16 

0 

1  doz  Ditto 

0 

6 

.0 

12  Bibles  att  6/ 

3 

12 

0 

1  Gilded  Do. 

0 

7 

:  6 

1  doz  Spectacle  Cases 
6  Spectacles 
1  Gilded  Bible 

0 
0 
0 

4 
3 

7 

:0 
6 
6 

2  Mrs.  Bradstreets 

poems 
6  flavels  Husbandry  3/9 
6  Practice  of  piety  2/9 

1 

4 

2 

16 

6 

.  6 

6 

1  Boltons  4  Last  things 

3 

0 

3  pearse  on  death  11  d 
2  Divine  breathings 
1  Baxters  call 

4 
2 
1 

3 

:  6 

3 

2  Doolittles  call  l/3 
1  Heydons  Harmony 
6  paper  books  att  10  d 
6  Psalm  books 

— 

3 

3 

5 

12 

9 

6 

:0 

0 

6  doz  primers  4/6 
2  Ayres  arithmetic 

1 

:     7 
3 

:  0 
:  6 

2  String  of  pearls 
4  Bayly  mans  end 
2  flavels  Husbandry 

o" 

3 
4 

:     7 

4 

0 

:  6 

4  Wigglesworths 
Poems 

0: 

4 

8 

6  doz  Inkhorns 

1 

4 

"o 

2  doz  Almanacks 

0 

3 

6 

14  :     6  :    0 


1  :  14 


17  :    0 


1  :  17:  10 


0  :  12 


C    156  3 


Appendices 


1  Vines  Saints  nearness 

to  God  0:1:2         1:8:8 


£42  :     6  :     5 
Boston  6th  feb:  1696-7.  dd  a  Coppy  of  this  Acco'tt. 


C   157  ] 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

XII 


Whippo's^ 

Account 

1696/7 

Mr.  James  Whippo  is  Dr. 

March  10'^       To  1  doz 

Inkhorns          — 

..    6..— 

1  doz  Lesser 

Ditto                — 

..    4..— 

1  doz  Spectacles 

and  Cases        — 

..  10..    6 

6  pr.  Black  Do  — 

..    7..— 

6  Wood  Cases    — 

..    2  ..— 

1  doz  Alma- 

nacks              — 

..    2..— 

6  proof  Catta.     — 

..    2..— 

6  Psalters            — 

..    9..— 

2  doz  Primers      — 

..    9..— 

1  doz  Psalm 

books                  1 

..    4..— 

1  paper  book  qt 

6  qrs  R.           — 

..  15  :. — 

yi  a  Rm  paper     — 

..    9  ..— 

6  Dyers  Works 

1/8 

..  10..— 

6  Great  Assize 

1/5                   - 

..     8..     6 

6  Doolittles 

Call  1/-           — 

..     7..    6 

£6 


^  James  Whippo,  of  Barnstable,  married  (l)  Experience,  daughter  of  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  Hinckley ;  and  (2)  Abigail  (Hammond)  Greenough. 

C  158  ] 


Ap.  r* 


May  12 


th 


June  3"^. 


Append 


ices 


Book 

1  Rm  paper        —  . 
1  doz  Psalm 
Books                  1  . 

.  19  . 

.    4. 

;_ 

1  doz  Inkhorns 

.    4  . 

.  ■■■'■ 

1  doz  Grand 
Master  piece 
of  the  Devil     —  . 

.     6  . 

1  doz  Mothers 

Blessing           —  . 
1  doz  Doolittles 

Catt.       I5d   —. 

.  14. 
.  15  . 

.  — 

6  Great  Assize    —  . 

.     8  . 

.    6 

6  Black  Spec- 
tacles 

.    7., 

.     6 

1  Dyers  Works 

.    1  .. 

.     8 

3  Cases  for 
Spectacles        —  . . 

,  11  .. 

To  12  Bibles 

at  6/                   3.. 

.  12.. 

4  Vincent 
Catta.     20  d   —  .. 

6.. 

8 

3  Gentleman's 
Jockey    20  d   —  . . 

5  Husband- 
mans  In- 

5 .. 

— 

structor            —  . . 

8  .. 

6 

3  Accedemy 
Compleam'ts  —  . . 

5  .. 



2  ..     3  .. 


—      £2..  17 


[   159  3 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

3  New  help  to 

Discourse  —  . .  5  . .  — 
3  History  of 

the  Plott  — ..    4..    6 

5  Dyers  Works  —  ..    8..    4     £  5  ..  15  ..  — 


1698 

March  ^'^        To  1  Rm 

paper 

—  ..  15..— 

6  Doolittles 

Sacram't 

—  ..    8..    6 

12 Call 

—  ..  15  ..— 

6  Dyers  Works 

—  ..    9  ..— 

1  Doz.  Alma- 

nacks 

—  ..    2..— 

1  Doz  primers 

—  ..    4..     6 

1  Doz  Horn- 

books 

— ..     1  ..    6 

6  Vincent  on 

Judgem't 

—  ..  10..— 

6  proof  Catta. 

— ..    2  ..    2 

1  doz.  psalm 

books 

1  ..    4  ..  — 

6  Bibles  att  5/ 

1  ..  10..— 

6  pockett  Books 

—  ..     7..— 

1  dozlnchorns 

—  ..     6..— 

1  doz  Lesser  Do 

—  ..    4..— 

100  /  of  Copperas 

—  ..  15  ..— 

£  7..  13 
May  8*^^  To  4  doz 

proof  Catta.  4/6  —  ..  18 


Appendices 


Novm  15*' 

To  i  doz 

Bibles  att  5/6 

3 

.     6  . 

.  1  doz  Psalters 

.  17. 

— 

j4  dozTestam'ts 

— 

.  11  . 

1  doz  Doolittle 

on  the   Sac- 

ram 't 

.  17. 

1  doz.  primers 

.    4  . 

}4  doz  Flavels 

Token  for 

Mourners 

— 

.    7  . 

.     6 

2  doz  Alma- 

nacks 

— 

.    4  . 

.  — 

1  Rm  paper 

.  14  . 

1  doz  ^2  Spec- 

tacles att  5/6 

per 

.    7  . 

.    3 

1  paper  book 

.    9  . 

1698 

March 

1  doz  Bibles 

W^ 

att  5/6 

3 

..     6  . 

.  — 

1  Rm  Paper 

— 

..  14. 

.  — 

6  accidence  att 

10^ 

..     5  . 

1  doz  Inchorns 

..     5  . 

1  doz  Do. 

smaller 

.    3  . 

.     6 

1699 

Sept. 

To  1  doz 

25*^ 

Psalm  books 

1 

..    4. 

£  7..  16 


6     £  4  ..  13 


C  1^1  ] 


The  Boston  Book  Market 


1  doz  Do. 
Thin  sorte 

—  ..  16..— 

2  doz  primers 
1  doz  Catta. 

—  ..    8..— 

— ..    2..—    £    2. 

.  10. 

1699- 
1700 

To  1  doz 
primers 

1  doz  Inchorns 
4  Doolittle's 

Call 

2  Ayerses 
arithmetick 

1  Hodders  Do 
1  Gramar 
1  Flavels  Saint 
Indeed 

1  Clarks  Tutor 

2  Bunyan's 
Broken  heart 

—  ..    4  ..  — 

—  ..    4..— 

— ..    5..    4 

— ..    3..    4 

—  ..    2..— 
— ..     1  ..    6 

— ..     1  ..    4 

—  ..    2..    4 

—  ..    3  ..— 

6  pockett 
Books 

Errors  E 

— ..    8..—    £    1. 

.  14.. 

10 

xcepted               £42. 

.    9  .. 

6 

i:  162  :i 


y;    Being  a  fullandperfea:  Relation  how  1B.H.thc9roi6ltafit-Mi 
f-         forsfif,  caught  his  beloved  Wife  'Ruth  in  ill  Circumftances. 

To  the  Tune^f  1>^fe»^o«j  'Poini  .  Or,  Tmothy  Ddjh  the  Saiveners  Apprentieq 
"  Defrendi  miferum  efti Hor. 


'•j 


^  ''  '-y       '  '"'^il  (and  with  Shami, 

r     ,   .  TnHough  the  Town  does  abound  fo  with  Pjoti 
''~''^':Jl    Yet  I  a-truc  Story  to  you  will  relates 

T^e  Godly  can  (port  too,  and  play  you  like  Lambs, 
Which  does  appear  true  by  poor  i&r/r/4«ri»t  Fate. 
There  s  a  Judgment  in*t, 
Which  I  can't  chuft  but  hint, 
DiM'f  "Becaulehe  a  Lye  once  from*  Crookborn  did  print : 
Dore.         OijeTm'KsUfik^igt^^rtJojceattbisNtmtf 
.  Fer  ^jamin  /  mfi  is  mtdtfnc  §f,  the  Stt»s. 
a. 
^         Your  Wife  full  oPcai^,  and  of  fears,  my  deir  ^rar, 
'^    Durft  not  lie  alone  in  this  Dangerous  Age  s 
And  finding  beGdes  you'd  no  Ink  in  your  Pen, 
;  With  a  Scrivcmer  (be  thought  it  high  time  toeo- 
,  .,  jtyiljakc't^cx  j|i|g^  -r  ^^^jjiig^ 
:^,..,.-/'^  •1f^^OUgh'yo^^aIc,wt)rfco|»J^>-v^^  •  .^-r 
Tbit  yoi^Spoofe  ba^  fiio^'f j^fHtb  ^klwl^yn^ 

The(c  Fines,  as  \  take  them,  are  things  Arbitrary, 

That  a  Sub jefi can't  lie  with  his  Wifcev'ry  Nighty 
Young  Statfonert  beware,who  hereafter  (hall  marry, 
That  your  Brides  you  carcfs  and  plealc  with  all 
Or  to  (bme  young  Lover,       (your  might 
Their  wants  they'l  dilcover, 
For  long  theyl  not  lie  in  Sheets  widiout  a  Ctver, 
Ob  ye  Tories  look,  bigt  8cc 
4- 
But  now  to  the  Matter  of  Fad  we  do  come. 


6. 


'yf 


I>r«veftf 


How  BenjMttH  leave  of  the  Marlhal  did  get; 
That  he  with  his  Deareft  might  then  lie  at  home, 


But  th' Apprentice  (alas)  had  no  notice  of  it 

For  no  (boner  were  Ben 

And  bis  Wife  laid  in  Den, 
But  the  Youngller  began  to  WbiRle^  and  Hem, 
Ob  je  Tones  itw^ttgi^c. 

MddMm  hearing  it,  to  the  Window  did  creep, 

To  tcU  Timotbj  his  place  was  fupply*d  ^ 
And  fancying  her  Cuckold  was  laid  faft  a(leep. 
She  told  T/iw  next  Nig[ht  he  (hould  not  be  deny 'd : 
But  it  was  a  mifbke, 
For  fie$t  was  awake, 
\^^  ^y  '^^olv'^  ^hc  Appointment  to  break: 
'^t^  ObpTonaM(bii^^c. 


As  foon  a^fhe'd  fung  Her  Abi  i  Fk>te!frd, 

She  foftly  again  to  her  warm  Bed  did  make,  (r 
Where  Be/t  much  cnrag'd  could  almo(J  eat  his  F 
But  yet  the  clofe  Cuckold  no  notke  wonW  ta 
Yet  ftill  as  he  lay. 

He  longd  much  for  day,  fa 

So  his  Wife  did  for  next  Night,  as  ^uds  well  ^ 

Obje  Tones  look  big,  andrtjoyte  4I  tbh  A^i 

ForBcn)»mmimjkism4Jifrteof$beSUm,. 

Up  rofe  Beit  whed  'twas  day,  and  the  StA  did 
But  He,  poor  Cuckold,was  andcr4  Ooiidiitt 

l^i^mnf^hlm^ard^mittbrnU^^m 

Then  kkea  true  Jilt  fell  a  wcm^  ak>ad 
,.:Biit  (he  never-"- '^^•^"^"^ 

,.0*^|ptiei.^^^^ 

Juft  at  the  time  wffen  begins  t&^M^i^<f^ 
And  Fanatical  Rebels  crowd  ZP/r^r  Coffce»lSol 

Then  Timothy  did  to  Mis  H repair, 

And  thought  himfclf  fafe  as  ere  in  Chcefe  ^ 
For  the  Zealous  Jade,  f  Mool 

Ben  a  True  Cuckold  made. 
And  now  he's  no  longer  one  in  Ma(^erade;  * 
Ob  ye  Tories  look^  b/^,  &c. 

9- 
But  the  Joys  of  this  World  arc  all  tr^nfitory^ 

And  alas  the  Tragedy  now  does  begin  j 
For  Ben  at  the  door  doth  cry  out,  fybere  4ri  jii 
Being  fomewhat  impatient  till  he  wasletif^i 
Then  with  a  huge  Club, 
He  poor  ©4/6  did  Drub, 
Who  (bruggled  in  vain  that  off  he  (bight  Klibr. 
06  j'f  Tories /0#i^^;^,&Co  ,, 

la' 
The  Neighbours  that  heard  the  Youth  ihurthetd 
To  keep  the  Kings  Peace,tbe  door  open  did  (bn 
Endeavouring  the  goo^  mjo  for  to  padfie^ 
Telling  him,  he  had  taken  her  for  better  { 
But  think  it  who  cou'd,  (i^or( 

That  Horn  him  (he  wou'dj 
Who  fo  kindly  o*th'  Pillory  with  her  {jusband  lloq 
Oh  ye  Tories  took,  big,  8tc 


Appendices 

XIII 

Inventory  of  Estate  of  Michael  Perry 
Bookseller  of  Boston,  1700 

1  Large  fol.  Bible  with  Common  Prayer  and 

Apoc:  £1 

1  New  body  of  Geography  8 

2  Cambridge  Concordances  2 

1  Stapletons  Juvenal  10 

Juvenal's  sixteen  Satyrs.  By  Sir  Robert  Stapleton, 
Knight.  Printed,  in  1673,  for  P.  Parker  in  Corn- 
hill.  The  catalogue  price  is  2  s.  6d.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  129. 

2  Quicks  Synodicum  15 

Synodicum  in  Gallia  Reformata^  or  The  Acts,  Deci- 
sions, Decrees,  and  Canons,  of  those  Famous  National 
Councils  of  the  Reform 'd  Churches  in  France.  By 
John  Quick.  Printed,  in  1692,  for  Thomas  Park- 
hurst.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  400. 

1  Sturmys  Magazine  12 

See  page  129,  supra. 

1  Goldmans  Dictionary  18 

See  page  90,  supra. 

1  Leonards  history  of  the  Papice  1 

Martyrs  in  Flames,  or  Popery  in  its  true  Colours  Dis- 
play'd.  [By  T.  Leonard.]  Printed,  in  1692,  for  N. 
Crouch  at  the  Bell  in  the  Poultry.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  410. 

1  Bulls  Commentary  on  the  15  Psalm 

A  commentarie  upon  the  fiftene  Psalmes,  Translated 
out  of  Latine  by  Henry  Bull.  London,  1 6 1 5 .  B.  M. 

3  Flavells  mental  Errors  6 

2  Rogers  on  trouble  of  mind  6 

A  Discourse  concerning  Trouble  of  Mind.  By  Timothy 
Rogers.  Printed,  in  1691,  for  T.  Parkhurst. 

I   163  3 


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4  Flavells  compass  Spiritualized  6 

See  page  140,  supra. 

1  Culpeppers  Engl :  Phy  :  3 

See  page  131,  supra. 

1  Christs  tears  for  Jerusalems  unbelief 

This  title  is  mentioned,  March,  1675,  among  others 
in  a  division  of  interests  among  Francis  Coles,  Tho- 
mas Veere,  John  Wright,  and  John  Clark.  Station- 
ers' Registers  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  ii.  496. 

1  Dickson  on  the  Hebrews 

A  short  Explanation  of  the  Epistle  of  Paul  to  the  He- 
brews. By  David  Dickson.  London,  1  635  and  1 649. 
B.M. 

1  Cultus  Evangelicus 

4  Cares  last  Legacy  1 

See  page  170,  infra. 

1  Fenners  Sacrifice  of  the  Faithful 

By  William  Fenner.  London,  1648.  B.  M. 

1  Ellis  English  School 

The  English  School :  containing  a  Catalogue  of  all  the 
words  in  the  Bible.  .  .  .  being  the  readiest  way  for 
teaching  children  to  read.  By  Tobias  Ellis.  Fifth  edi- 
tion. London,  1680.  B.  M. 

14  Gellebrands  Epitome  1        1 

See  page  143,  supra. 

2  Fulfilling  of  the  Scripture  2 

1  Glossographia  6 

Glossographia,  Or  A  Dictionary  interpreting  the  Hard 
Words,  of  whatsoever  Language,  now  used  in  our 
refined  English  Tongue.  By  T.  Blount.  Printed,  in 
1 68 1 ,  for  Thomas  Flesher  at  the  Angel  and  Crown 
in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
I.  433. 

1  Englands  heroical  Epistles  6 

By  Michael  Drayton.  Printed,  in  1690,  for  B.  Crayle 

C    164  J 


Appendices 


at  the  Peacock  and  Bible  at  the  West  End  of  PauVs. 
Term  Cktalogues  {Arher)^ii.  326. 

1  Godfrey  of  Bulloigne  6 

Godfrey  of  Bulloigne,  or  the  Recoverie  of  Jerusalem. 
Done  into  English  heroicall  verse  [from  the  Italian 
of  Tasso]  by  E.  Fairfax.  London,  1660.  B.  M. 

2  History  of  England  6 

?  The  Collection  of  the  History  of  England.  By  Sam- 
uel Daniel.  Reprinted  in  1684.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  103. 

1  Jure  maritimo  6 

See  page  144,  supra, 

18  Colsons  Kallenders  1        7 

The  Mariner's  New  Calendar.  By  Nathaniel  Colson, 
Student  in  the  Mathematics.  Printed,  in  1675  and 
1 680,  for  William  Fisher  at  the  Postern  near  Tower 
Hill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  211,410. 

8  do.  with  Practice  16 

4  Loves  art  of  Surveying  2 

Geodaesia,  or  The  Art  of  Surveying  and  Measuring 
of  Land  made  easie.  By  John  Love,  Philomath. 
Printed,  in  1688,  for  J.  Taylor  at  the  Ship  in  St. 
Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii. 
224. 

1  Morning  Exercise  4 

By  Samuel  Annesley. 

1  Plutarchs  Lives,  2d  Vol.  1 

1  Norwoods  System  of  Navigation  6 

By  Matthew  Norwood,  Teacher  of  Mathematical  Arts. 
Printed,  in  1685,  for  H.  Sawbridge  at  the  Bible  on 
Ludgate  Hill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ^ii.  146. 

1  Prestons  Liveless  life  6 

A  Liveles  Life :  or,  Man's  Spirituall  death  in  Sinne. 
By  John  Preston,  Master  of  Emmanuel  College, 
Cambridge.  The  fourth  edition  appeared  in  1641. 
B.  M. 

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1  Geometrical  Seaman  3 

The  Geometricall  seaman,  or  the  Art  of  navigation 
performed  by  Jeometry,  shewing  how  all  the  three 
kinds  of  sailing,  vizt.  by  the  plaine  chart,  by  Mer- 
cator's  chart,  by  a  greate  circle  &;c,  performed  by  a 
plaine  ruler  and  a  pare  of  compasses  without  Areth- 
meticall  conclusion  by  Henry  Phillips.  Entered  at 
Stationers'  Hall,  April  22,  1651.  Stationers'  Regis- 
ters (Eyre  and  Rivington),  i.  364. 

1  Use  of  the  Quadrant  6 

The  use  of  a  Mathematical  Instrument  called  a  Quad- 
rant. Sold,  in  1 676,  by  Joseph  Moxon,  at  the  Atlas 
on  LudgateHill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  262. 

1  Fosters  Sureties  of  proportion  3 

?  The  Circles  of  Proportion.  By  William  Oughtred. 
Translated  by  William  Forster.  London,  1632,  etc. 
B.M. 

2  Sellers  practical  Navigation  10 

See  page  94,  supra. 

2  Salmons  Dispensatory  16 

Pharmacopaeia  Bateana,  or  Bate's  Dispensatory, 
translated  [by  William  Salmon]  from  the  last  Edi- 
tion of  the  Latin  Copy.  The  second  edition  was 
printed,  in  1699,  for  S.  Smith  and  B.  Walford  at 
the  Prince's  Arms  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  m.  161. 

1 Doron  medicum  6 

Doron  Medicum,  or  A  Supplement  to  the  New  Zow- 
</on  Dispensatory.  In  Three  Books.  By  William  Sal- 
mon. Printed,  in  1682,  for  T.  Dawkes,  etc.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  508. 

12  Strongs  Spelling  bookes  12 

See  page  122,  supra. 

1  Lives  Justinian  and  his  Empr  :  2 

The  Debauch 'd  Court',  or  The  Lives  of  the  Emperour 

Justinian  and  his  Empress  Theodora  the  Comedian. 

Faithfully  translated  into  English.  Printed,  in  1 682, 

for  R.  Baldwin.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  485. 

C   166  ] 


Appendices 

1  Innocency  and  truth  3 

1  Infant  Baptism  vindicated  3      . . 

?  Paedo-baptismus  vindicatus.  B.  J.  R.  [J.  Prince?] 

Printed,  in  1693,  for  J.  Dunton.  Term  Ckitalogues 

(Arber),  ii.  437.  Or, 
Vinditiae  Paedo-Baptismi.  By  R.  B.  Ibid.,  112. 

1  Hodisdons  Sion  and  Parnassus  2 

Sion  and  Parnassus,  or  Epigrams  on  sevei-all  texts  of 
the  Old  and  New  Testament.  By  John  Hoddesdon. 
London,  1650. B.  M. 

1  Small  Hebrew  Bible  6     .. 

1  Whole  duty  of  man,  imperfect  2     .. 

3  Mystery  of  husbandry  9 

Sy sterna  Agriculturae.  The  Mistery  of  Husbandry  dis- 
covered. By  John  Worlidge.  The  fourth  edition  was 
printed  in  1696  for  N.  Rolls.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  II.  595. 

4  Vincent  on  Judgement,  \5d  13     9 

Christ's  certain  and  sudden  Appearance  to  Judgment. 
By  Thomas  Vincent,  sometime  Minister  of  Maudlin, 
Milk  Street,  London.  The  eighth  edition  was  printed 
in  1696  for  Ralph  Simpson,  at  the  Harp  in  St.  Paul's 
Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  574. 

2  Shour  of  Earthquakes  1 

Practical  Reflections  on  the  late  Earthquakes  in  Jamaica, 
England,  Sicily,  Maltha,  ^X.c.,Anno  1 692.  By  John 
Shower.  Printed,  in  1693,  for  J.  Salusbury.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  n.  450. 

2  Mr.  Doolittles  Funeral  Sermon  8     .. 

Either  Thomas  Doolittle's  sermon  on  E.  Brookes, 
London,  1 698;  or  a  sermon  of  Samuel  Doolittle.  See 
B.M. 

1  Table  concerning  the  measure  of  time  2     . . 

?The  Measure  of  Time  in  Directions,  according  to 
a  new,  natural,  and  accurate  Institution.  Contain- 
ing Tables.  By  John  Kendal.  Printed,  in  1683,  for 

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C.  Hussey  at  the  Flower  de  Luce  in  Little  Britain. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  44. 

8  Wakeleys  Compass  rectified  16 

The  Mariner's  Compass  Rectified  :  containing  Tables 
for  the  hours  of  the  Day,  etc.  By  Andrew  Wakely. 
The  third  edition  appeared  in  1 684.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  108. 

I  Vincents  conversion  of  the  Soul  1      . . 

By  Nathaniel  Vincent.  Printed,  in  1 688,  for  Thomas 
Parkhurst.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber) ^  ii.  229. 

20  Youngs  Spelling  bookes  16     8 

The  Complete  English  Scholar  in  Spelling,  Reading, 
Writing.  By  E.  Young,  Schoolmaster  in  London. 
The  sixth  edition  appeared  in  1688,  sold  by  Thomas 
Guy  at  the  Oxford  Arms,  near  Pope's  Head  Alley,  in 
Lumbard  Street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  n.  221. 

13  Bibles  in  12°  gilt,  N:  E:  Psalms  2     12     .. 

5  do.  plain  do.  15     .. 

II  do.  in  24°  gilt  2       4.. 

1  Smetii  6 

Henricus  Smetius,  whose  Prosodia  (probably  the  book 
mentioned)  was  printed  in  London  in  many  editions. 
B.M. 

1  Burgus  Dicii  Logice  3     .. 

Monitio  Logica,  or  an  Abstract  and  Translation  of 
[Franco]  Burgerdicius's  Logick.  By  a  Gentleman. 
Printed,  in  169/,  for  R.  Cumberland  at  the  Angel 
in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber), 
m.  16. 

1  Legrands  Philosophy  1 

Antonii  Le  Grand  Institutio  Philosophiae,  secundum 
principia  D.  Renati  Descartes.  The  third  edition 
was  printed  in  1674  for  J.  Marty n.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  1 9  1 . 

1  Ovidii  Opera,  3  vol.  6 


c  168  :i 


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11  Nomenclaturas  11     .. 

See  page  126,  supra, 

5  Janua  Trilinguis  15     .. 

5 Linguarum  2     6 

By  John  Amos  Komensky.  See  Term  Catalogues. 

1  Art  of  Gardening  3 

Systema  Horti-culturae,  or  The  Art  of  Gardening,  in 
Three  Books.  By  John  Worlidge.  The  third  edition 
appeared  in  1 688,  printed  for  T.  Dring  at  the  Har- 
row in  Fleet  Street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  n. 
226. 

2  Vindiciae  Anti-Baxteriani  6 

Vindiciae  AnU-Baxterianae^  or  some  Animadversions 
[by  Samuel  Young]  on  a  Book,  entituled,  Reliquiae 
Baxierianae^  or  the  Life  of  Mr.  Richard  Baxter. 
Printed,  in  1 698,  for  W.  and  J.  Marshall.  Term  Cat- 
alogues (Arber),  m.  74. 

1  Art  of  drawing  Sundials  2 

5  Apology  for  Congregational  Divines  1     3 

1  Balls  Astro  Mathematica  3 

26  Bur  woods  helps  1        6     .. 

Helps  for  Faith  and  Patience  in  time  of  affliction.  By 
James  Burdwood,  late  minister  in  Dartmouth. 
Printed,  in  1 693,  for  J.  Robinson.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  474. 

23  Doolittles  Call  11     6 

See  page  182,  infra. 

1  Young  Secretarys  Guide  8 

The  Young  Secretaries  Guide,  or  A  Speedy  help  to 
Learning.  The  tenth  edition  was  printed  in  London, 
in  1 699,  for  H.  Rhodes  at  the  Star,  comer  of  Bride 
Lane,  in  Fleet  Street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  m. 
146. 

1  Method  for  guiding  reason  2 

1  Cordial  Endeavours  2 

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1  Cares  last  Legacy  3 

The  Last  Legacy  of  Henry  Care,  Gent.,  deceased. 
Printed,  in  1  689, for  T.  Cockerill  at  the  Three  Legs, 
over  against  the  Stocks  Market.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  242. 

1  Conspiracy  against  Genoa  4 

9  Smiths  great  Assize  9     .. 

See  page  140,  supra. 

I  Lees  Joy  of  Faith  8 

By  Samuel  Lea.  Printed,  in  1689,  for  John  Dunton. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  246. 

5  History  of  Fortunatus  3     4 

The  right,  pleasant  and  variable  trachical  history  of 
Fortunatus.  First  penned  in  the  Dutch  tongue ;  there- 
hence  abstracted  and  now  .  .  .  published  in  English 
byT[homas]  C[hurchyard  ?].  London,  1  682.  B.  M. 

I I  History  of  the  plott  2     9 
?  Compiled  by  Roger  L' Estrange.  The  second  edition 

was  printed,  in  1  680,  for  H.  Brome.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  i.  410. 

17  Hey  woods  life  4     3 

FLifein  God's  Favour.  By  Oliver  Hey  wood.  London, 
1679.  B.  M, 

4  Lattin  bibles  at  6  ^  14.. 

7  Owen  of  mourning  1     9 

16  Pearce  on  death  16     .. 

See  page  136,  supra. 

3  Pilgrims  progress  with  cuts  3 

See  B.  M.  Catalogue  under  "  Bunyan." 

3  Shour  of  Grace  1     6 

Of  the  day  of  Grace,  or  A  discouree  concerning  the 
possibility  and  fear  of  its  being  past  before  death. 
By  John  Shower.  Printed,  in  1693,  for  A.  Chandler 
at  the  Surgeon's  Arms  in  Aldersgate  Street.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  n.  474. 

I  170  3 


Appendices 


1  Lucius  Florus  Engl :  2 

The  Roman  History  of  Lucius  Annaeus  Florus  made 
English.  Printed,  in  1  673,  for  P.  Parker  at  the  Leg 
and  Star  in  Cornhill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i. 
129. 

1  Sincerity  and  hypocrisy,  etc.  3 

12  Token  for  mourners  10 

By  Flavell.  See  pages  98  and  140,  supra. 

1  Christian  Pilgrim  6 

?  The  Progress  of  the  Christian  Pilgrim  from  the  pres- 
ent world  to  the  world  to  come.  [Altered  from  Bun- 
yan's  Pilgrim's  Progress.^  London,  1700.  B.  M. 

1  Isle  of  Man  2 

By  Richard  Bernard  of  Batcombe  in  Somersetshire. 
Printed,  in  1683,  by  T.  M.  Term  Catalogues  (Ar- 
ber), II.  55. 

8  Vernons  compting  house  *  10     .. 

See  page  113,  supra. 

3  Seven  wise  Masters  2 

Seven  Wise  Masters  of  Rome.  The  B.  M.  Catalogue 
mentions  five  editions  printed  in  London  between 
1671  and  1700,  the  last  named  being  the  twenty- 
fifth  edition. 

1  Forme  of  Sound  words  2 

A  Form  of  Sound  Words,  or  a  Scripture  Catechism. 
By  John  Worthington .  The  sixth  edition  was  printed 
in  1700  for  L.  Meredith  at  the  Star  in  St.  Paul's 
Churchyard.  Term  Catalogues  (Arher)^  lu.  189. 

1  Gospell  call  in  meter  4 

1  Moulins  Spiritual  Guide  ^  4 

1  Violations  of  Property  2 

The  true  and  real  Violations  of  Property.  Printed,  in 
1 683,  for  B.  Aylmer  at  the  Three  Pidgeons  in  Corfi- 
hill.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  7. 

1  Piety  of  Parice  2 

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1  Connecticot  Election  Sermons  2 

1  Enquiry  concerning  the  Trinity  in  the  God- 
head 1      . . 

1  Alcibiades  and  Carolina  6 

?  Alcibiades.  A  Tragedy  .  .  .  written  by  Thomas  Ot- 
way.  Printed,  in  1 688,  for  R.  Bentley.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  ii.  217. 

? Carolina,  or  Loyal  Poems:  written  by  T.  Shipman. 
Printed,  in  1683,  for  S.  Hey  rick.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  5. 

1  Phillips  mathematical  manual  2 

By  Henry  Phillippes.  London,  1669.  B.  M. 

1  Arrow  against  Idolatry  2 

By  Henry  Ainsworth.  Nova  Belgia,  1640.  B.  M. 

2  Bunian  on  the  Soul  i     4 

The  Greatness  of  the  Soul,  and  unspeakableness  of  the 
loss  thereof;  with  the  Causes  of  the  losing  it.  Printed, 
in  1 682,  for  B.  Alsop  at  the  Angel  and  Bible  in  the 
Poultry.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  i.  504. 

16  Baxters  call  13     4 

See  page  141,  supra. 

1  Elegancy  of  Speech  3 

7  Clarks  Looking  glass  1     9 

A  Looking-glass  for  Persecutors :  containing  Multi- 
tudes of  Examples  of  God's  .  .  .  judgments  upon 
bloody  and  merciless  Haters  of  his  Children.  By  Sam- 
uel Clarke.  London,  1674. 

1  Brides  longing  for  her  Bridegrooms  2d  com- 

ing 2 

2  Calamys  ark  2 

See  page  130,  supra. 

4  Fall  and  riseing  of  St:  Peter  2     .. 

3  Duty  of  women  6 

?  The  whole  Duty  of  a  Woman .  The  second  edition 

C   172  3 


Appendices 


was  printed  in  1697  for  J.  Guillim  in  Bishopsgate 
street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  m.  31. 

23  Flavels  Saint  indeed,  10  of  19     2 

See  page  141,  supra, 

2  Howards  precious  blood  4 

1  Papice  glorying  in  antiquity  3 

5  Life  of  Q:  Mary  1     3 

The  History  of  the  Life,  bloody  Reign,  and  Death  of 
Queen  Mary.  Printed,  in  1 682,  for  D.  Brown  at  the 
Black  Swan  and  Bible,  without  Temple  Bar.  Term 
Catalogues  (^Avher)y  I.  514. 

1  Pharmacopia  Hagiensis  2 

Pharmacopaea  Hagiensis  Communi  Collegii  Medici 
ejusdem  loci  opera  adornata.  Hague  Comitum,  1659. 
B.  M. 

1  Saltmarsh  Free  grace  2 

Free  Grace,  or  The  flo wings  of  Christ's  Blood  freely 
to  Sinners.  By  John  Saltmarsh.  The  tenth  edition 
was  printed  in  1 700  for  J.  Marshall  at  the  Bible  in 
Grace- Church  Street.  Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  in. 
222. 

1  Pearces  concern  of  life  3 

The  great  Concern,  or  A  serious  Warning  to  a  timely 
and  thorough  Preparation  for  Death ;  with  helps  and 
directions  in  order  thereunto.  By  Edward  Pearse. 
Recommended  as  proper  to  be  given  at  Funerals. 
The  nineteenth  edition  was  printed  in  1699  for  E. 
Tracy  at  the  Three  Bibles  on  London  Bridge.  Term 
Catalogues  (Arber),  m.  129. 

18  Stoddons  Pastors  charge  12 

IloifjLi^v  ^vXaKLov.  The  Pastors  Charge  and  the  Peoples 
Duty.  By  Samuel  Stoddon.  London,  1694.  B.  M. 

6  Sion  in  distress  1     6 

By  Benjamin  Keach.  Two  issues  were  made  in  Bos- 
ton in  1683.  Evans,  344,  345. 

8  Winneys  Christian  choice  1     4 

God,  a  Christian's  Choice.   By   Samuel   Winney. 
C   173  ] 


The  Boston  Book  Market 


Printed,  in  1 675,  for  Thomas  Cockerill  at  the  Atlas 
in  Comhill.  Term  Catalogues  (^Arher)^  i.  194. 

1  Idiot  in  4  books  complete 

?  Idiota's,  or  Duns  Contemplations  of  Divine  Love. 
Printed  at  Paris  [London?],  1662.  B.  M. 

1  Practice  of  Repentance 

36  Conscience  the  best  friend 

See  page  179,  infra. 

19  Early  Religion 

By  Cotton  Mather.  Printed  for  Perry  in  1694.  Evans, 
698. 

17  Mr.Bailys  life  with  old  Mr. Mathers  Sermon 

19  ditto,  without 

23  Duty  of  Parents  and  Children,  5d 

31  Willards  Desertions 
See  page  182,  infra. 

3 1  Mathers  folly  of  sinning 
See  page  182,  infra. 

9  Order  of  Churches 

5  Willards  peril  of  the  times 

By  Samuel  Willard.  Printed  in  1700  for  Benjamin 
Eliot.  Evans,  963. 

2  Books  Bills  Lading,  qt.  4  qr.  both 

5  ^sops  Fables  Engl :  and  Lattin 

5  Hools  Corderius 

See  page  121,  supra. 

4  Ovid  Metamorph : 

6  TuUeys  Orations 

8  Lattin  Testaments 

7  Virgin 

12  Accidences 
15  Catos  at  10  d 

C   174  3 


1     4 


12 

•• 

3 

2 

8 

6 

6 

4 

9 

7 

15 

6 

12   11 

4     6 
2     6 


7 
10 
10 

8 

9 

12 

14 

8 

12 


Appendices 


19  Greek  Grammars  at  18^ 

29  Lattin  Grammars  at  12  d 

14  do.  with  construing  books,  16^ 

43  Sententias  at  Sd. 

5  Ovid  de  Tristibus 

1  Thesaurus  Poeticus 

Mentioned  in  Stationers'  Registers  (Arber),  in.  634, 
and  IV.  1 04 , 1 8  5 , 2  6 6 ;  (Eyre  and  Rivington),  ii.  2 1 2 . 

8  Tulleys  Epistles 

7 de  officiis  at  16  of 

9  iEsops  Fables 
8  Corderius 

8  Accidences 

1  Syntaxis  construed 

?  English  Examples  of  the  Latin  Syntaxis.  By  William 
Walker.  Printed,  in  1687,  for  T.  Sawb ridge  at  the 
Tliree  Flower  de  Luces  in  Little  Britain.  Term  Cata- 
logues (Arber),  n.  190. 


8 
9 
18 
8 
3 


4 
9 

18 

16 

5 


4  Smiths  great  assize 

4 

.. 

See  page  140,  supra. 

27  Psalters  with  Proverbs,  9d 

1        3 

3 

3  Testaments 

4 

28  Primmers 

4 

8 

3  Psm  Books  6 :  d  in  Turkey  gilt 

7 

6 

5  do.  bd.  in  Calfe 

10 

2  do.  bd.  in  red  Turk : 

4 

.. 

9  do.  plain 

13 

6 

Perry  had  issued  the  Psalms  in  1697.  Evans,  817. 

1  do  Bartons 

6 

The  Book  of  Psalms  in  Metre,  by  William  Barton. 

Printed  for  the  Company  of  Stationers. 

Term  Cata- 

/o^e*  (Arber),  ii.  362. 

C   175  I 

The  Boston  Book  Market 

5  do.  by  Tate  and  Brady 

As  Tate  and  Brady  was  not  reprinted  in  Boston  until 
1713  this  was  an  English  edition. 

13  Sea  charts 

9  Packs  playing  cards 

4  Paper  books  qt  8  qr  T :  C :  rd 
11  do.  qt  27  qr  sml  papr.  rd 

6  do.  qt  16  gr  T:  C: 

1  do.  4to  qt  3  qr  small 

1  9  qr  paper  sewed  into  books 
21  qr  ditto  rd 

21  copy  books  for  boys,  qt  6  qr 

68  Books  in  parchment  qt  ^  qr  each  6d 

17  do.  qt  16  sheets  each,  7  d 

54  do.  bd  in  Leather  qt  }4  qr  each,  ^d 

7  do.  in  Leather,  qt  16  sheets  s.c.  9d 
27  best  pencils  at  3  c/ 

5  pocket  books  Small  bd  in  Leather 
26  do.  qt  %  qr  ordinary  paper,  &d 
19  do  in  Vellum  rd  and  claspt,  16  of 
11  Letter  cases 

23  pr.  brass  compasses,  Small  and  large 
3  Lead  Stand  dishes  for  ink 
68  doz.  of  Ink  homes,  2s  &d 
7  Skins  Turkey  Leather 

2  \h  }4  Vermilion 

10  Spectacle  cases  gilt 
13  do.  black,  not  gilt 
9  do.  wood 

C  176  3 


1 

19 

.. 

1 

6 

12 

.. 

1 

11 

3 

1 

2 

3 

.. 

9 

3 

15 

9 

3 

1 

14 

8 

11 

1 

16 

.. 

15 

3 

6 

3 

3 

4 

13 

1 

5 

4 

11 

.. 

1 

3 

.. 

1 

8 

10 

2 

2 

1 

10 

.. 

3 

4 

3 

3 

1 

6 

Appendices 


4  one  foot  rules 

4 

2  three  foot  ditto 

3 

1  two  foot  do 

1 

1 1  prospect  glasses  great  and  Small 

1 

2 

18  do.  Lignumvitae 

13 

109  Ink  pots  at  4c/ 

1 

16 

4 

77  Ink  homes  at  2d 

12 

5 

13  doz.  white  Spectacles,  3^ 

1 

19 

.. 

8  doz.  and  3  do  black  at  4^ 

1 

13 

200  Quills 

2 

8 

100  Epitome  of  English  orthography 

8 

4 

Printed  in  1697  by  B.  Green.  Evans,  782. 

168  French  Lettr. 

14 

152  Remarkable  Judgments 

12 

8 

Terribilia  Dei.  By  Cotton  Mather.  Printed  in  1697 
by  B.  Green  and  J.  Allen.  Evans,  795. 

31  Warning  to  the  flocks  1     3 

By  Cotton  Mather.  Printed  in  1700  *'for  the  Book- 
sellers." Evans,  935. 

63  Willards  Man  of  war  10     6 

See  page  180,  infra. 

13  doz  Assemblys  Catechism  13 

The  Shorter  Catechism.  Printed  by  B.  Green  and  John 
Allen  in  1699.  Evans,  855. 

31  Assemblys  do.  with  proofs  5     2 

32  Important  cases  2     8 
Thirty  important  Cases.  By  Several  Pastors  of  adjacent 

Churches,  meeting  in  Cambridge.  Printed  by  B. 
Green  and  John  Allen,  1699.  Evans,  878. 

32  Willard  on  morality  5     4 

See  page  181,  infra. 

2  doz  gilt  home  bookes  2 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

1  doz.  plain  ditto  6 

36  Christians  Thank  offering  3 

The  Christian  Thank-offering.  By  Cotton  Mather. 
Printed,  in  1696,  for  Perry.  Evans,  752. 

3  God  the  Guide  of  Youth  9 

By  Timothy  Cruso.  Printed  in  1  695  for  T.  Cockerill. 
Term  Catalogues  (Arber),  ii.  537. 

9  Lamentation  of  Mary  Hooper  9 

Lamentations  for  her  Sons,  poisoned  by  eating  Mush- 
rooms. Printed  in  1 694  by  Benjamin  Harris.  Evans, 
690. 

4  Rm.  writing  paper  1     8 
2000  Wafers  4     .. 
30  Collection  of  papers  relating  to  the  present 

affairs  of  England  2     6 

18  Bartons  Thanksgiving  Sermon  1     6 

5  Stevens  ditto  5 

20  Warnings  to  the  unclean  3     4 

By  John  Williams.  Printed  for  Perry  in  1 700.  Evans, 
902. 

l}4  lb  Sealing  wax  3 

4  doz.  bookes  Leafe  brass  4 

6  Pen  knives  3 

3  Setts  of  Brass  Letters  6 
1  Box  of  Book  binders  tools  1 5 
1  pr.  of  money  Scales  1 
1  Book  binders  plow  10 

1  large  Press  16 

2  do  Small  8 
2  Sewing  presses      '  4 

4  Common  prayer  Books,  1  do.  Turkey,  1  do. 

C   178  -} 


Appendices 

Shaggreene,  1  Mordens  Geography,  1  Raw- 
leighs  abridgement,  1  Stanhops  Kempis,  2 

Taylors  contempla :  2       5 

Books,  etc.,  in  the  Chamber,  vizt. 

60  pocket  books  some  rd  3       8 

16  doz.  gilt  home  bookes  16 
38  doz.  plain  do  19 
12  Rulers  2 
38  doz.  White  Spectacles,  3^  5       2 

17  doz.  wood  cases  1  14 
9  Letter  cases  9 
1  Corderius  2 
14  Accidences,  at  8t/  9     4 

3  Cato's  2     6 

1  Pearce  of  Death  1 

2  lb.  Holmans  Ink  powder  1 
2  lb  Sap  green  5 
53  Skins  writing  parchment  2     13 

4  Skins  Vellum  6 
6  Parchment  Forrells  4 

Books,  etc.,  in  the  Garretts 

900  Ink  pots,  at  4c/  15       .. 

5  Bottoms  pack  thread  1 

536  pieces  of  parchment  for  folios,  3d  6     14 

450  Stubs  Conscience  best  friend,  sheets  1     17 
Conscience  the  best  Friend  upon  Earth.  By  Henry 
Stubbe.  Reprinted,  in  1700,  for  Buttolph.  Evans, 
954.  This  may  point  to  an  earlier  issue  for  Peny. 

c  179 ;] 


The  Boston  Book  Market 


18  Rm.  Post  paper,  15* 

13 

10 

.. 

4  Law  Books  Sticht 

4 

44  doz.  Primmers 

4 

8 

106  doz.  Assemblys  Catechism 

5 

6 

.. 

7  qr.  painted  paper 

1 

3 

190  Slates 

2 

7 

6 

62  Sheets  past  board,  3t/ 

15 

6 

88  qr  Bills  of  Lading 

4 

8 

.. 

261  pr.  Clasps  for  Bibles 

1 

.. 

11 

6  Rm  whited  brown  paper 

1 

10 

.. 

52  Sheep  Skins  at  10  d 

2 

3 

4 

7  Rm  paper 

2 

9 

.. 

6  doz  Psalters  at  9 

2 

14 

7  Calve  Skins  at  2  ^  4  f/ 

16 

4 

9  red  Sheep  Skins 

13 

6 

20  bundles  of  Scale,  20 

2 

.. 

3  Rm.  painted  Paper 

12 

.. 

25  Psalters  qrs.  2it  5  d 

10 

5 

18  Gumm  araback 

. 

18 

100  French  Lettr: 

8 

4 

There  is  a  possibility  that  this  is  intended  for  Cotton 

!          Mather's  La  Fe  del  Christiano,  printed  by 

B.  Green 

and  J.  Allen  in  1699. 

7  doz.  Willards  man  of  war 

14 

.. 

The  Man  of  War.  A  Sermon  preached  to  the 

Artillery 

Company  at  Boston ,  June  5,1699.  Boston , 

B.  Green 

and  J.  Allen,  1699.  Evans,  899. 

2  lead  Stand  dishes 

8 

300  Law  Books,  qrs. 

15 

.. 

28  doz.  Black  Spectacles 

5 

12 

.. 

c  ISO  n 


Appendices 


16  doz.  wood  cases 

1 

12 

20  doz.  Leather  do 

3 

4  doz.  gilt  do 

16 

14  Prospect  glasses,  Vellum 

1 

8 

1  doz.  do.  ordinary 

4 

60  Rm.  printing  paper,  3s 

25  Willards  peril  of  the  time,  6d 

The  Peril  of  the  Times  displayed.  By  Samuel  Willaixi. 
Printed,  in  1700,  for  Benjamin  Eliot.  Evans,  963. 

9 

12 

6 

25 Desertions 

12 

6 

See  page  182,  infra. 

50  Doolitdes  call 

1 

5 

200  do.  in  qrs.  at  3^ 
See  page  182,  infra. 

2 

10 

•  • 

9  doz.  Willard  on  morality 

Morality  not  to  be  relied  on  for  Life.  By  Samuel  Wil- 
lard. Printed,  in  1700,  for  Benjamin  Eliot.  Evans, 
962. 

18 

28  Warning  to  the  Flocks 

See  page  177,  supra. 

3000  Wafers 

1 
6 

2 

225  Psalm  books,  qrs,  lOd 

9 

7 

6 

2000  Ordinary  Quills 
300  Primmers,  qrs 

1 

10 
5 

•  • 

26  doz.  Cards,  at  2.y 

2 

12 

5  doz.  Psalm  bookes,  bound,  18  of 

4 

10 

. , 

150  Families  well  ordered,  9  qrs.  Id 
By  Cotton  Mather.  Printed ,  in  1  6  9  9 ,  for  Perry 

Evans, 

12 

6 

175. 


25  Order  of  the  Gospell,  qrs.  3d 

By  Increase  Mather.  Printed,  in  1700,  for  Benjamin 


c  181 : 


The  Boston  Book  Market 

Eliot.  Evans,  938.  The  death  of  Perry  may  account 
for  a  reissue  by  Buttolph. 

125  Spiritual  desertions,  9  qrs.  3f/  1113 

By  Willard.  See  infra. 

30  Mathers  folly  of  Sinning,  bd.  5r/  12      6 

The  Folly  of  Sinning,  opened  and  applyed .  By  Increase 
Mather.  Printed,  in  1699,  for  Perry  and  Buttolph. 
Evans,  879. 

43  Willards  spiritual  deser:  bd.  6^  1        16 

Spiritual  Desertions  discovered  and  remedied.  By 
Samuel  Willard.  Printed  in  1 700  for  Perry  and  Eliot. 
Evans,  901. 

50  Mathers  Familys,  bd.  5r/  1       ..    10 

15  Baileys  life,  bd.  4^/  5     .. 

70  Early  Religion  11      8 

100  Doolittles  Call,  bd  .  2     10      0 

A  Call  to  Delaying  Sinners,  or  The  danger  of  delaying 
in  matters  concerning  our  Souls.  By  Thomas  Doo- 
little.  Printed  in  London,  in  1694,  for  H.  Nevv^man 
at  the  Grasshopper  in  the  Poultrey.  Term  Catalogues 
(Arber),  ii.  5  18.  The  number  of  copies  of  this  work 
in  the  inventory  would  indicate  a  Boston  issue  by 
Perry;  but  no  copy  of  it  is  known. 

9  Birdwoods  helps  9     .. 

See  page  169,  supra. 

40  Accidences,  8  (/  1.6.8 

Apprisers.,  Zec'a  Tuthill 
Thomas  Fitch 
Benj.  Eliot 

Presented  by  the  relict  widow  Joanna  Perry. 


Boston^  January  23,  1700 

[    182    ] 


Index 


Index 


Abbot,  George,  'Jonah,'  7&. 

Abhorror,  defined,  40  n. 

'Academy  of  Compliments,'  114, 
119,128,159. 

'Accidence,'  84, 149, 161,  174, 175, 
179,  182. 

Adams,  Thomas, '  Commentary, '  78 . 

Adderly,W.,  91. 

Adventure,  20. 

Advertising  of  books,  62. 

Aesop, '  Fables,'  91, 174, 175 ;  '  My- 
thologia,'  150. 

Agas,  Ralph,  map  of  London,  7. 

Ainsworth,  Henry,  'Arrow  against 
Idolatry,'  172. 

AUeine,  Joseph,  Vindiciae,  85 ;  'An 
Alarm,'  85,  92,  110,  155;  'Life 
and  Death,'  85,  92,  114;  'Re- 
mains,'92, 114. 

Allen,  James,  24, 

Allen,  John,  24,  81;  taxed,  29. 

Allen, ,  'Catechism,'  101. 

Allen,  ,  'Rebuke,'  120. 

Allestry,  James,  14  n.,  18. 

Ames,  Rev.  William,  131;  library  of, 
3;  'Medulla,'  85,  148;  'De  Con- 
scientia,'  126,  148. 

'Anglia  Notitia,'  129. 

Annesley,  Elizabeth,  22. 

Annesley,  Rev.  Samuel,  22,  24; 
'Morning  Exercise,'  165. 

'  Apologie  for  God's  Worship,'  31. 
'Apology    for    Congregational    Di- 
vines,' 169. 
'  ArgalusandParthenia,'  85, 95, 130 ; 
see  Quarles. 

Aristotle,  'Problems,'  142. 
'Arraignment  of  the  Creatures,'  73. 
'Art  of  drawing  Sundials,'  169. 
'Art  of  Lying,'  77. 


Ashley,  Anthony,  Earlof  Shaftsbury, 

116. 
Ashwood,  Bartholomew,  'Heavenly 

Trade,'  99. 
Assembly's  Annotations,  85,  95. 
Assigny,  M.  d',  'Poetical  History,' 

117. 
Atkinson's  warehouse,  Boston,  72. 
Atwell,  Mary,  55. 
Ayres,  John,  'A  la  mode  Secretary,' 

113;  'Arithmetic,'  156,  162. 

B.,  R.,  '  Vinditiae  Paedo-Baptismi,' 
167. 

Bacon,  Francis,  102. 

Bailey,  ,  'Life,'  174,  182. 

Baker,  Richard,  'Chronicle,'  85, 
124. 

Baker,  Sir  Richard,  'Meditations,' 
77. 

Balch,  ,  Justice,  22. 

Ball,  ,    'Astro    Mathematica, ' 

169. 

Balston,  John,  20. 

Bancroft,  Thomas,  '  Two  Books  of 
Epigrams,'  75. 

Barker,  Christopher,  48. 

Barnardiston,  Ann,  136. 

Bamardiston,  Nathaniel,  136. 

BarrifFe,  William,  'Military  Disci- 
pline,' 111,  144.  [175. 

Barton,  William,  '  Book  of  Psalms,' 

Barton,  ,  '  Tlmnksgiving  Ser- 
mon,' 178. 

Baxter,  Richard,  '  Crucifying  of  the 
World,'  73;  'Saints'  Everlasting 
Rest,'  85,  113;  'Call,'  97,  112, 
141,  156,  172;  on  'Concord,' 
100;  'Poor  Man's  Family  Book,' 
111 ;  'Now  or  Never,'  112,  141; 
'How  to  do  good,'  115. 


C    185  ] 


Index 


Bayly,  ,  'Man's  End,'  156. 

Belcher,  Andrew,  20.  [115. 

Benn,  William,  *Soul    Prosperity,' 

Berkeley,  ,  'Felicity  of  Man,' 

75.  ^  [171. 

Bernard,   Richard,    'Isle  of  Man,' 

Bethell,  ,  75. 

Bible,  Hebrew,  132. 

Bible  and  Crown,  18  n. 

Bible  and  Three  Crowns,  2 1 . 

Black  Cock,  16. 

Black  Raven,  Poultry,  21. 

Blake,  Mary,  112. 

Blake,  Nicholas,  112. 

Blount,  Charles,  'An  Appeal  from 
the  Country,'  36,  70. 

Blount,  Sir  Henry,  37. 

Blount,  Thomas,  '  Law-Dictionary, ' 
134,  146;  'Glossography,'  164. 

' Boatswaine's  Art,'  93. 

Bolter, ,  20. 

Bolton,  Robert,  'Instructions,'  109; 

'Four  last  Things,'  156. 
Bond,  J.,  'Horatius,'  88,  150. 
Bookbinding,  42;  tools,  178. 

'Book  of  Jests,'  71. 

'  Book  of  Knowledge,'  106. 
'Book  of  Rates,'  142,  153. 
Boston,  importance  as  book  centre, 

3;  taxed  booksellers,  28. 
'Boston  News- Letter,'  64. 
Boulter,  John,  10. 
Boulter,  Robert,  9,  36  w.;  death,  12  ; 

invoice  of  books,  88. 
Boulter,  William,  10. 
Bradford,  William,  printer,  61. 
Bradstreet,  Ann,  'Poems,'  156. 
Brady,  Nicholas,  'Psalms,'  176. 
'  Breach  of  Uzza,'  77. 
Brewster,  William,  library- of,  3. 
'  Bride's  Longing,'  172. 
Bridge,  William,  91;  'Remains,' 
110. 

C  1 


Bridgman,  Sir  Orlando,  '  Convey- 
ances,' 154. 
Brookes,  E.,  167. 

Brooks,  Thomas,  'Apples  of  Gold,' 
84,  88, 1 12 ; '  Precious  Remedies,' 
84,  95  ;  'String  of  Pearls,'  84, 1 12, 
156;  'Mute  Christian,'  84,  113; 
'Ark,'  89,  112,  130. 

Browne,  Thomas,  'Absolute  Ac- 
comptant,'  105. 

Brunning,  Joseph,  25;  Dunton  on, 
26;  taxed,  29. 

Brunning,  Marah  (Cobham),  25  n. 

Brunning,  Susanna,  25  n. 

Buck,  Sir  George,  'Third  Univer- 
sity,' 74. 

Bull,  Henry,  'Commentary  on 
Psalms,'  163. 

Bunyan,  John,  'Pilgrim's  Progress,' 
60,86,155,170;  '  Broken  Heart, ' 
162;  'Greatness  of  the  Soul,'  172. 

Burdwood,  John,  'Helps  for  Faith,' 
169,  182. 

Burgavenny  House,  8. 

Burgedicius,  Franco,  '  Monitio  Lo- 
gica,'  168. 

Burnet, Gilbert,  148;  'History,'  45. 

Burroughs,  Jeremiah,  '  Rare  Jewel,' 
84,  96;  'Matthew,'  91;  'Gos- 
pel-Worship,' 127,  128;  '  Gospel 
Remission,'  133. 

Burton,  Richard,  'Melancholy,'  71. 

Burton,  Robert  or  Richard,  '  Prode- 
gies,'  118;  'Wars  of  England,' 
120;  'Amicable  Curiosities,'  120. 

Butler,  Peter,  20. 

Byfield,  Nathaniel,  'Account  of  the 
late  Revolution,'  19  n. 

Bythner,  Victorinus,  '  Lyra  prophe- 
tica,'  130,  133. 

'Cabinet  of  Italy,'  72. 

Caesar,  103.  [l43,  172. 

Calamy,  Edmund,  'Ark,'  88,  130, 


86  ] 


Index 


Camden,  William,  '  History  '  of 
Elizabeth,  103. 

Campbell,  Duncan,  27;  taxed,  29. 

Capel,  Richard,  '  Tentations, '  80. 

Care,  Henry,  '  Last  Legacy,'  164, 
170. 

Carmichael,  Alexander,  *  Believers' 
Mortification,'  91. 

Carraciolo,  Galleazzio,  145. 

Cary,  Robert,  '  Chronological  Ac- 
count,' 15,  16. 

Caryl,  Joseph,  on  'Job,'  108. 

*  Cassandra, '  85 . 
Cato,  123,  174,  179. 

Cave,  William,  'Apostolici,'  15. 

'  Celestial  Husbandry,'  76. 

Censorship  of  press,  57. 

Chamberlayne,  P.C.,  'Compendium 
geographicum,'  114. 

Charles,  King,  character,  71. 

Child, ,  13. 

Chiswell,  Richard,  sketch  of,  12; 
critic,  14 ;  letter  to  Mather,  14  ; 
to  Usher,  16,  83;  New  England 
Primer,  29  ;  invoices,  108,  121, 
133,  140. 

'Christian  Man,'  76. 

'  Christ's  Tears  for  Jerusalem's  Un- 
belief,' 164. 

Cicero,  M.  T.,  '  Offices,'  143,  175  ; 
'Orations,'  174;  'Epistles,'  175. 

Clarke,  John,  '  Phraseologia  Pueri- 
lis,'  150. 

Clarke,  Joseph,  '  Formulae  Orato- 
riae,'  98. 

Clarke,  Samuel,  '  Marrow  of  Eccle- 
siastical History,'  85,  129  ;  '  Mar- 
tyrology,'  85;  'Looking-glass  for 
Persecutors,'  172. 

Clarke,  ,  Captain,  20. 

Clarke,  ,  '  Guide,'  84. 

*  Clerk's  Tutor,'  85,  95,  133,  162. 
'  Cloud  of  Witnesses,'  102. 


Cobham,  Josiah,  25  n. 

Cobham,  Marah,  25  n. 

Cock,  ,  Captain,  16. 

Cocker,  Edward,  'Clerk's  Tutor,' 
89,  113. 

Coe,  J.,  30. 

Coke,  Sir  Edward,  'Reports,'  146; 
on  Littleton,  153. 

Cole,  Abdiah,  121. 

Cole,  ,  'Sovereignty,'  99. 

Coleman,  Ekiward,  106. 

'Collection  of  Papers,'  178. 

Collier,  Thomas,  *  Body  of  Divinity,' 
97.  [96. 

CoUinges,  John, '  Several  Discourses, ' 

Colson,  Nathaniel,  'Mariner's  New 
KaUender,'  144,  165.  [45. 

Commines,  Philippe  de,  '  Memoirs, ' 

'Compleat  Clerk,' 95. 

Condy,  William,  81. 

Connecticut,  election  sermon,  172. 

'Conspiracy  against  Genoa,'  170. 

'Conversion  of  Solomon,'  76. 

Cooke,  James,  '  Marrow  of  Chirur- 
gery,'  93. 

Corbet,  John,  26;  'Self  Employ- 
ment,' 52. 

'Cordial  Endeavours,'  169. 

'Corruption  of  Nature,'  76. 

Cotton,  John,  142 ;  '  Milk  for  Babes,' 
30,  32;  'Covenant,'  94,  128. 

Cotton,  John,  librarian,  5. 

Ci-ashaw,  William,  30. 

Cratey,  Andrew,  19. 

Cromwell,  Oliver,  99. 

'Crown  Garland,'  105. 

Cruso,  Timothy,  178. 

Culpeper,  Nicholas, '  Dispensatory,' 
84,99,  131,146;  'Physician,' 84, 
99,  109,  131,  146,  164;  Riverius, 
121;  'Directory  for  Midwives,' 
146. 

*  Cultus  E-v^ngelicus,'  164. 

187  ] 


Index 


Daily  Observations,'  77. 

Dal  ton,  Michael,  'Country  Justice,' 
134,  145;  'Oificium  Vicecomi- 
tum,'  153. 

Daniel,  Samuel,  'Collection  of  the 
History  of  England,'  165. 

Dankers,  Jasper,  3,  9  n. 

Davenport,  John,  'Saint's  Anchor- 
hold,'  131. 

Davenport,  W.,  7S. 

Dawson, ,  sermons,  77 . 

' Debauch' d  Court,'  166. 

Delanoy,  Abraham,  66. 

Delanoy,  Peter,  66. 

Dell, ,  Sermons,  145. 

Descartes,  Rene,  168. 

*  Destruction  of  Troy,'  90. 

Dexter,  Henry  Martyn,  3. 

Dickinson,  Harry,  15  tz. 

Dickson,  David,  'Short  Explana- 
tion,' 164. 

'Divine  Breathings,'  156. 

Divinity,  works  of,  46. 

'Doctrine  of  the  Bible,'  97. 

Dod,  John,  'Sayings,'  60;  on  'Ten 
Commandments,'  74. 

Dolfihin,  9  n. 

'Domestick  Intelligence,'  38. 

Doolittle,  Samuel,  167. 

Doolittle,  ITiomas,  21;  '  Treiitise 
on  Ix)rd's  Supper,'  85,  118,  141, 
155, 160,  161 ;  'Young  Man's  In- 
structor,' 99  ;  '  Lord's  last  Suffer- 
ings,' 118;  'CaU,'  156,  158,  160, 
162,  169,  181,  182;  'Catechism,' 
159;  'Funeral  Sermon,'  167. 

Dorrington,  Theophilus,  '  Right  Use 
of  an  Estate,'  136. 

Drayton,  Michael, '  England's  Hero- 
ical  Epistles,'  164. 

'Dream  of  the  Divell  and  Dives,' 
106. 

'  D  runkard '  s  Character,  '80. 


Dudley,  Joseph,  24. 

Dugard,  William,  'Rhetoric,'  90, 
126,  150. 

Dugdale,  Stephen,  'Further  Infor- 
mation,' 107. 

Du  Moulin,  Pierre,  'Spiritual 
Guide,'  171. 

Dunton,  Elizabeth  (Annesley),  22. 

Dunton,  John,  5 ;  visit  to  New  Eng- 
land, 21. 

Du  Prat,  Abbe,  'Venus  in  the 
Cloyster,'  139. 

Dutch  Annotations,  125,  143,  151. 

*  Duty  of  Parents  and  Children,  '174. 

Dyer,  Sir  James,  'Reports,'  153. 

Dyer,  William,  'Works,'  85,  88, 
114,  158,  159,  160. 

Dyke,  Daniel,  '  Mystery  of  self-de- 
ceiving,' 7&. 

Eames,  Wilberforce,  30  n.,  33  n., 

34  n. 
'Early  Religion,'  136. 
Eliot,  Benjamin,  182. 
Eliot,  John,  Indian  works,  33 ;  Bible 

bound,  43. 
Elizabeth,  20. 

EJlis,  Tobias,  'English  School,'  164. 
Elton,  Richard,  '  Compleat  Body  of 

the  Art  Military,'  120,  134,  144. 
'English  Liberties,'  40,  86,  132. 
'English  Rogue,'  89. 
'Enquiry  concerning  the  Trinity,' 

172. 
Epicurus,  'Morals,'  77. 
'Epitome  of  English  Orthography,' 

177. 
Erasmus,  Desiderius,   'Colloquies,' 

85,  87,  88,  123,  124,  141. 
Erastus,  103. 

Europe,  situation  of,  44.  [96. 

Everard,  John,  'Gospel  Treasury,' 
Evton,  James,  83. 


1 188 : 


Index 


Fairfax,  E.,  165. 

'Fall  and  Rising  of  St.  Peter,'  172. 

Farindon,  Anthony,  'XXX.  ser- 
mons,' 79. 

Famabius,  Thomas,  85,  98,  142. 

Faustus,  Dr.,  49,  104,  119,  129, 
148. 

Featley,  Daniel,  78. 

Feltham,  Owen, '  Resolves,'  93, 1 14. 

Fenner,  William,  'Sacrifice  of  the 
Faithful,'  164. 

Finch,  Sir  Henry,  'Law,'  153. 

Fitch,  Thomas,  182. 

Flavell,  John, '  Saint  indeed, '  84,  111, 
141,  155,  162,  173;  'Husbandry 
spiritualized,'  85,  112,  156;  'Di- 
vine Conduct,' 97,  112;  'Touch- 
stone of  Sincerity, '  98,  111,  144, 
171;  'Sacramental  Meditations,' 
101,111,142;'  Token  for  Mourn- 
ers,' 111,  140, 161, 171 ;  'Naviga- 
tion spiritualized, '  112,  140,  164; 
'Two  Treatises,'  112;  'Fountain 
of  Life,'  113,  135;  'Method  of 
Grace,'  135;  'Preparations  for 
Sufferings,  '135;'  Mental  Errors, ' 
163.  [74. 

Florio,  John,  'Essays'  of  Montaigne, 

Florus,  Lucius  Annaeus,  'Roman 
History,'  171. 

'Followers  of  Zion,'  77. 

Forel,  43. 

Forshell, ,  'Hypocrite,'  78. 

Forster,  William,  166. 

'Fortunatus,'  105,  170. 

Foster,  John,  57 . 

'  Four  Paradoxes, '  78 . 

Fox,  John,  'Time,'  85,  88, 114,  124, 
141,  155. 

Foy,  John,  9,  88. 

Franck,  R.,  '  Phylosophical  Trea- 
tise,' 31. 

French  Letter,  177,  180. 


Frost,  John,  'Select  Sermons,'  79. 
'Fulfilling  of  the  Scripture,'  164. 
Fuller,  Thomas,  'Church-History,' 
80;  'Holy  State,'  80. 

Gaine,  John,  '  New  England  Prim- 
er,' 3,  30;  other  publications,  31. 

Galtruchius,  P.,  'Poetical  History,' 
117. 

Gane,  Edgar,  31. 

Gardiner,  Robert,  'Ars  Clericalis,' 
153. 

'Garland  of  Delight,'  105. 

Gassendus,  P.,  'Institutio  astrono- 
mica,'  130. 

Gay,  Ernest  Lewis,  36  7z. 

Gellibrand,  Henry, 'Epitome  of  Nav- 
igation,' 136,  143,  164. 

Gellibrand,  Samuel,  binder,  43. 

'Gentle  Craft,'  103. 

'Gentleman's  Jockey,'  134,  159. 

'Gentle  Sinner,'  71. 

'German  Diet,'  79. 

Gill,  Obadiah,  27;  taxed,  29. 

Gillam,  Benjamin,  25  n. 

Gillam,  Hannah,  25  n. 

Gillam,  Hannah  (Savage),  25  72. 

Gillam,  Joseph,  13. 

Glisson,  William,  Common  Law, 
89,  144.  \y5. 

Goddard,    Thomas,    'Miscellanea,' 

'Golden  Remaines,'  77 . 

Goodall,  John,  71. 

Goodwin,  Thomas,  91;  'Works,' 
140. 

Gore,  John,  sermons,  77 . 

'Gospel  Call  in  Meter,'  171. 

Gouge,  Thomas,  'Young  Man's 
Guide,'  110,  127;  'Word  to  Sin- 
ners, '110;'  Christian  Directions, ' 
128. 

Gouldman,  Francis,  'Copious  Dic- 
tionary,' 84,  90,  163. 


C   189  -\ 


Index 


Gray,  ,   'Christian  Warfare,' 

155. 
Green,  Bartholomew,  24. 
Green,  Benjamin,  24. 
Green,  Samuel,  30,  33.  [77. 

Greene,  Robert,  'Farewell  to  Folly,' 
Greenhill,   William,   91;  on   'Eze- 

kiel,'  109. 
Greenleaf,  Stephen,  55. 
Grocer,  John,  71. 
Grocer,  Thomas,  inventory  of,  71. 

Gross,  ,  'Inducements,'  80. 

Guiana,  relation  of  voyage,  78. 
Gulston,  Anthony,  89. 
Gunter,  Edmund,  'Works,'  85. 
Gumall,  William, '  Christian  in  com- 

pleat  Armor,'  85. 
Gutberleth,  ,  'Physick,'  127. 

Haak,  Theodore,  125. 

'Haec  et  Hie,'  137. 

Hakluyt,  Richard,  '  Principall  Navi- 
gations,' 109. 

Hall,  Joseph,  'Works,'  78;  'Con- 
templations,' 80. 

Hale,  Sir  Matthew,  'Contempla- 
tions,' 15;  Chiswell  on,  15. 

Hales,  John,  '  Golden  Remains, '  14. 

Hancock,  John,  36  n. 

Hardy,  Nathaniel,  'St.  John,'  76. 

Harris,  Benjamin,  24  ;  licensed,  28  : 
taxed,  29  ; '  New  England  Primer,' 
29,  32;  'Protestant  Tutor,'  35; 
trial,  36;  news  sheet,  38;  on  the 
pillory,  38 ;  petition,  39 ;  migrates 
to  Boston,  41 ;  entry  of  Spira,  50 ; 
petition,  88;  title-page,  108. 

Harris,  Mrs.  Benjamin,  stands  by 
husband,  39;  ballads  on,  40. 

Harris,  Vavasour,  24. 

Harvard  College,  library,  3;  revolt 
of  scholars,  13 ;  Sewall  in  library, 
55. 


Hattley,  ,  13  n. 

Haworth,    Samuel,    on    'Consump- 
tion,' 115. 

Hayward,  John,  account,  86. 

Heereboord,  Adrianus,  *  Logica,'  85. 

'Help  to  Discourse,'  101. 

Herbert,  Mary,  Countess  of  Pem- 
broke, 'Arcadia,'  97,  125. 

Hesiod,  134. 

Hesketh,  Henry,  'Piety,'  117. 

Heydon,  ,  'Harmony,'  156. 

Heylyn,  Peter,  'Cosmography,'  85. 

Heywood,   Oliver,    'Life   in   God's 
Favour,'  170. 

Heywood,  Thomas,'  Hierarchic,'  79. 

Hicks,  William,  '  Oxford  Jests, '  84, 
131. 

Hinckley,  Abigail  (Hammond  | 
Greenough),  158  72. 

Hinckley,  Experience,  158  n. 

Hinckley,  Thomas,  158  n. 

History,  works  of,  45. 

'History  of  the  [Popish]  Plot, '  160, 
170. 

Hoar,  Bridget,  16  n. 

Hoar,  Leonard,  13  n.,  14,  16. 

Hobart,  Sir  Henry, 'Reports,'  146, 
153. 

Hodder,  James,  'Arithmetic,'  85, 
110, 147, 162  ;  'Metaphysics,'  85. 

Hoddesdon,  John,  '  Sion  and  Parnas- 
sus,' 167. 

'Holy  Court,'  78. 

Hooker,  Thomas,  '  Doubting  Chris- 
tian,' 101,  120,  126,  141. 

Hoole,  Charles,  'Corderius,'  121, 
174,  175,  179;  'Greek  Testa- 
ment,' 121 ;  'Sententiae  Pueriles,' 
141;  'Cases,'  141;  'Terence,' 
142. 

Hooper,  Mary, '  Lamentations, '  1 78 . 

Horatius,  88. 

Horn-books,  41,  177. 


C  190  ] 


Index 


Hoskin,  John,  sermon,  77 . 

Howard,  William,  Viscount  Staf- 
ford, 40  n. 

Howard,   ,    'Precious   Blood,' 

173. 

Hughes,  William,  'Grand  Abridg- 
ment,' 151. 

Hull,  John,  66. 

'Husbandman's  Instructor,'  159. 

'Idiota's,'  174. 
'Informer's  Doom,'  138. 
'Innocency  and  Truth,'  167. 
'Isle  of  Man,'  77, 
'Isle  of  Pines,'  60. 
Isocrates,  150. 
'Italian  Convert,'  145. 
Ive,  John,  83 ;  agent,  8,  16,  81 ;  let- 
ter to  Usher,  20. 
Ive,  John,  Jr.,  death  of,  9  n. 

'Jack  Newberry,'  105. 

Jackson,  Thomas,  on  'Creed,'  79. 

Janeway,  James,  99;  Life,  86,  101, 

114,  128;  'Token  for  Children,' 

86,  127;  'Heaven  on  Earth,' 110. 
Janeway,  John,  Life,  101. 
Jeffries,  Walter  Lloyd,  vii. 
Jeffries,  William  A.,  vii. 
Jenner,  Thomas,  21. 
Joan,  Pope,  138. 
John  Bonadventure,  19. 
Johnson,  John,  'Arithmetic,'  91,147. 
Johnson,  Marmaduke,  33 ;  printer  to 

Harvard  College,  5S . 
Johnson,    ,    'Deus    vobiscum,' 

102. 
Jolls,  Thomas,  21. 
Jones,  Richard,  18. 
Jones,  Thomas,  18. 
Jordan,    Thomas,    'Royal    Arbor,' 

105. 
'Jovial  Garland,'  105. 


Julian,  114. 

'JureMaritimo,'  129,  144,  165. 

Justinian  and  Theodora,  Lives  of ,  1 6  6 . 

Justinus,  143. 

'Juvenal's  sixteen  Satyrs,'  163. 

Keach,  Benjamin,  'War  with  the 
Devil,'  128,  142;  'Sion  in  Dis- 
tress,' 173. 

Keayne,  Robert,  founds  library,  4. 

Keble,  Joseph,  'Statutes  at  Large,' 
125,  146. 

Keirton,  Joshua,  18/2. 

Keirton,  Mary,  18. 

Keirton,  William,  18. 

Keith,  George,  61. 

Kendal,  John,  'Measure  of  Time,' 
167. 

Kersey,  John,  147. 

Kilbume,  Richard,  'Choice  Presi- 
dents,' 154. 

King,  Henry,  'Exposition,'  77. 

Kittredge,  George  Lyman,  4. 

Komensky,  John  Amos,  'Janua  Tri- 
linguis,'  169. 

Kyngston,  Felix,  31. 

Langhorne,  Richard,  'Tryal,'  107. 
Laopolis,  36  77. 

Lea,  Samuel,  'Joy  of  Faith,'  170. 
Leathers,  for  binding  books,  42. 
Lee,  Rev.  Samuel,  library  of,  4. 
Lee,  Samuel,  27. 

Lee,  ,  'Catechism,'  101. 

Le  Grand,  Antonius, '  Institutio  Phi- 

losophiae,'  168. 
Leipsic  catalogue,  10. 
Leonard,  T.,  'Martyrs  in  Flames,' 

163. 
L' Estrange,  Roger,  124,  170. 
Leusden,  Jan,  131. 
Lidget,  Charles,  16. 
Lidget,  Elizabeth,  16/2. 

191    ] 


Index 


Lilly,  William,  *  Synopsis  of  Gram- 
mar,' 143. 

Lisle,  Alicia,  16  n. 

Lisle,  Bridget,  16  n. 

Lisle,  John,  16  n. 

'List  of  Abhorrors,'  40  n. 

'Little  Peace-maker,'  111. 

Littlefield,  George  E.,  5. 

Littleton,  Adam,  'Linguae  Latinae 
Liber,'  84,  130,  148. 

London,  booksellers  and  stationers,  7. 

'London  Bully,'  138. 

London  Coffee  House,  Boston,  28. 

'London  Jilt,'  116. 

Love,  John,  'Geodaesia,'  165. 

Lucian,  150. 

Lukin,  Henry,  'Interest  of  the  Spi- 
rit,' 52. 

Lye,  Thomas,  91. 

Lyly,  John,  'Anatomic  of  Witt,'  76. 

Machiavelli,  Niccolo,  'Florentine 
History,'  45. 

'Magnalia  Christi,'  Mather's,  54. 

Mall  [Maule] ,  Thomas,  '  Cloud  of 
Witnesses,'  10. 

Mandeville,  Sir  John,  'Travels,'  106. 

Manley,  Thomas,  '  Office  and  Duty 
of  ELxecutors,'  142. 

Manton,  Thomas,  'James,'  76. 

Manuscripts  sent  to  printer,  17. 

Markham,  Gervase, '  Master-piece, ' 
109;  'Way  to  get  wealthy,'  133. 

Mary,  Life  of  Queen,  173. 

Massachusetts,  laws,  1675,  13;  cen- 
sorship of  press,  57;  product  of 
press,  58. 

'Masterpiece  of  the  Devil,'  159. 

Mather, Cotton,  26, 28, 136 ;  on  Mor- 
gan, 6;  reader,  51,  52;  'Magna- 
lia,' and  'Biblia,'  54;  advertiser, 
62;  'Early  Religion,'  174,  182  ; 
'Terribilia  Dei,'  177;  'Warning 


to  the  Flocks,'  177,  181;  'Chris- 
tian Thank  Offering, '  1 78 ;  '  La  Fe 
del    Christiano,'    180;    'Families 
well  ordered,'  181,  182. 
Mather,  Increase,  9  w.,  1 14;  Chiswell 
to,   15;   Dunton  on  libi-ary,  23; 
reading,  50;    'Folly  of  Sinning,' 
174,  182 ;  '  Order  of  the  Gospel,' 
181. 
Mather,  Nathaniel,  25,  26. 
Matthews,  Albert,  13. 
Mead,  Matthew,  '  The  almost  Chris- 
tian,' 85,  88,  123. 
'Melius  Inquirendum,'  139. 
'Memoires  of  the  Stuarts,'  137. 
'Method  for  guiding  Reason,'  169. 
Miller,  Thomas,  '  Compleat  Model- 

ist,'  91. 
Milton,  John,  'History-  of  Britain,' 
104;  'Paradise  Lost,'  121;  'Lo- 
gic,' 147. 
'Miracles  no  Violation,'  115. 
Mitchel,  Jonathan,  '  Discourse  of  the 

Glory,'  92. 
Montaigne,  Michel  de,  'Essays,'  74. 
'Moones  Mapp,'  75. 
Moore,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  130. 
Morden,  Robert,  '  Geography  recti- 
fied,' 116,  179. 
More,  Sir  Thomas,  'Utopia,'  109. 
Morgan,  James,  criminal,  6. 
Morland,  Sir  Samuel,  111. 
'Morning  Exercise,'  125,  165. 
Morton,  Rev.  Charles,  24. 
Morton,  Nathaniel,  '  New  England's 

Memorial,'  18;z.,59. 
'Moses'  Choice,'  73. 
Mossom,  Robert,  'Preacher's  Tri- 
partite,' 79. 
'Mother's  Blessing,'  159. 
Moxon,  Joseph, '  Monthly  Exercises, ' 

120. 
Murcot,  John,  '  Several  Works, '  76. 


C    192   3 


Index 


Nash,  Thomas,  '  Quatemio,'  80. 

'  New  Body  of  Geography,'  163. 

*  Newborn  Christian,'  77. 

New  England  Primer,  newly  discov- 
ered, 29;  ordered,  151. 

'New  England  Psalms,'  19,  119, 
123,  146. 

'  New  Help  to  Discom^se,'  160. 

Newman,  Samuel,  'Concordance,' 
84,  126,  133,  163. 

Newton,  Thomas,  account,  153. 

New  York,  books  in,  65. 

Nichols,  Charles  Lemuel,  59. 

Nomenclatui-a,  86,  126,  150,  169. 

Norton,  John,  *  Orthodox  Evangel- 
ist,' 142. 

Norwood,  Matthew,  '  Seaman's 
Companion,'  95 ;  '  System  of  Nav- 
igation,' 165. 

Norwood,  Richard,  'Epitome,'  89, 
114,  127,  136;  'Trigonometric,' 
136. 

'Nugae  Venales,'  128. 

Nye,  Nathaniel,  'Art  of  Gunnery,' 
85. 

Nye,  Philip,  91. 

Oakes,  Urian,  14. 

Gates,  Titus,  o7 . 

O'Brian, ,  115. 

'  Order  of  Churches,'  174. 

Otway,  Thomas,  'Alcibiades,'  172. 

Oughtred,  William, '  Circles  of  Pro- 
portion,' 166. 

Overton,  Henry,  30. 

Overton,  Rebecca,  12  w. 

Ovid,  85;  'Metamorphoses,'  91, 
142,  174;  'Tristia,'  123,  175; 
'Opera,'  168. 

Owen,  John,  '  Holy  Spirit,'  93 ; 
'  Hebrews,'  93,  148  ;  '  Exercita- 
tions,'  117  ;  '  Person  of  Christ,' 
93,     117;     'Meditations,'     118; 


'Practical  Exposition,'  118;  'Of 
Communion,'  120;  'Mourning,' 
170. 

Owen,  Madame,  55. 

'Oxford  Grammar,'  87,  131. 

'Oxford  Jests,'  84,  131. 

Pain,  Philip,  'Daily  Meditations,' 
34. 

'  Papacy  glorying  in  Antiquity,'  1 73. 

'Parismus,'  85,  89,  134. 

Parkhurst,  Thomas,  21.  [38. 

Parliament,  rumored  plot  to  destroy, 

Parmiter,  Ann,  71. 

Parmiter,  John,  71. 

Parry, ,  '  Narrative,'  104. 

Parsons,  Robert,  '  Booke,'  80. 

*  Parthea  sacra,'  78. 

Pater  Noster  Row,  London,  7. 

Pearse,  Damaris,  '  Present  for 
Youth,'  136,  170,  179. 

Pearse,  Edward,  '  Great  Concern,' 
100,  156,  173. 

Pearson,  John,  '  Creed,'  85. 

Pemberton,  Sir  Francis,  37. 

Pembrook,  Elkanah,  account,  155. 

'^^erfect  Politician,'  99. 

Perry,  Joanna,  182. 

Perry,  Michael,  inventory  of  estate, 
62,  163. 

Peter,  Hugh,  'Milk  for  Babes,'  30. 

'  Peters  Repentance,'  77 . 

'Pharamond,'  88. 

'Pharmacopia  Hagiensis,'  173. 

Phillips,  Edward,  'New  World  of 
Words,'  103. 

PhiUips,  GiUam,  25. 

Phillips,  Hannah,  25  n. 

Phillips,  Henry,  '  Geometricall  Sea- 
man,' 166;  'Mathematical  Man- 
ual,'172.  [25. 

Phillips,  Samuel,  22  n.  ;  Dunton  on, 

Philo-Dicaios,  37  n. 

193   ] 


Index 


'Physick  for  the  Soul,'  77. 

Pierce,  Richard,  24. 

Pierce,  William,  almanac  of,  59. 

'  Piety  of  Parice,  '171.  [  1 3  7 . 

'Pilgrim's  Progress,'  second  part, 

'Plain  Man's  Pathway,'  71. 

'Plautus  Happe,'  79. 

'  Pleasant  Histor)^  of  the  gentle 
Craft,'  134. 

Plutarch,  150 ; '  Moral  Philosopher,' 
78;  'Lives,'  153,  165. 

Poole,  Matthew,  'Nullity,'  102; 
'  Dialogue,'  102 ;  ' Synopsis  Criti- 
corum,'  108;  'Annotations,'  150, 
152. 

Popish  plot,  45,  83,  160,  170. 

'  Practice  of  the  High  Court  of  Chan- 
cery unfolded,'  153. 

'Practice  of  Piety,'  155,  156. 

'  Practice  of  Prayer,'  7^. 

'Practice  of  Repentance,'  174. 

Praher,  Stephanus,  'Emblems,'  74. 

'Present  for  a  Papist,'  138. 

Preston,  John, '  A  Liveles  Life,  '165. 

Primer,  an  Indian,  33 ;  suppression 
of,  46 ;  see  New  England  Primer. 

Primrose,  Gilbert,  'Six  Sermons,' 
74. 

Prince,  J. , '  Paedo-baptismus  vindica- 
tus,'  167. 

Printers,  on  monopolies,  47. 

'Profit  and  Pleasure  united,'  26. 

'  Progress  of  the  Christian  Pilgrim,' 
171. 

'Protestant  Cuckold,'  40,  162. 

'  Protestant  (Domestick)  Intelli- 
gence,'38. 

'ProtestantTutor,' 32, 35,150, 155; 
seized,  40. 

Psalters,  Hebrew,  142. 

Pulton,  Ferdinando,  '  Common 
Pleas,'  148,  151,  153. 

Purchase,  Samuel,  'A  Theatre,'  7S. 


Quakers,  11. 

Quarles,    Francis,  'Emblems,'   85; 

'Fancies,'  85;  'Argulus,'  85. 
'Queen-like  Closet,'  94,  104. 
Quevedos  Villegas,  Francisco  Gomez 

de,  125. 
Quick,  John,  'Synodicum,'  163. 

Raleigh, ,' Abridgment, '  179. 

'Ramble  to  Hackney,'  138. 

Ramee,  Petrus  de  la,  147;  '  Dialec- 
ticae  Libri  duo,'  131. 

Randolph,  Edward,  on  Foy,  9  n. 

Ransey,  ,  sermons,  75. 

Ratcliffe,  John,  binder,  43 ;  Grocer 
and,  72. 

Rawley,  William,  102. 

Record,  Robert,  'Arithmetic,'  84, 
147. 

Redding, ,  'Guide,'  76. 

Reeve,  Thomas, 'God's  Plea,' 79. 

'Regula  Placitandi,'  154. 

'Reynard  the  Fox,'  104. 

Reynolds,  Edward,  'Three  Trea- 
tises,' 74. 

Reynolds,  John, '  Triumphs  of  God's 
Revenge,'  97. 

Richard,  21. 

'Right  Ordering  of  the  Bees,'  75. 

Riverius,  Lazarus, '  Practice  of  Phys- 
ick,' 85,  121. 

Rivington,  Charles,  18  w. 

Rivington,  Charles  Robert,  31. 

Rivington,  James,  18  n. 

Roberts,  Francis, '  Clavis  Bibliorum , ' 
85. 

Roberts,  ,  sermons,  78. 

Robinson,  Hugh,  '  Scholae  Wintoni- 
ensis,'  94,  144. 

Rochester,  Earl  of,  see  Wilmot. 

Rogers,  Nehemiah,  'Strange  Vine- 
yard,' 74;  'Fast  Friend,'  78; 
'  Rich  Fool,'  78 ;  '  Marriage,'  78 ; 

194  n 


Index 


'Peter,'  140;  *  Parable  of  the 
Prodigal,'  140. 

Rogers,  Timothy,  *  Discourse  on 
Trouble  of  Mind,'  163. 

Rogers,  ,  'Lost  Sheep,'  7&. 

Rose  and  Crown,  17. 

Rowland,  W.,  121. 

Rudd,  Thomas,  144. 

Rushworth,  John,'  Historical  Collec- 
tions,' 45. 

Ryther,  John,  'Plat  for  Mariners,' 
100. 

St.  Paul's  churchyard,  London,  sta- 
tioners of,  7. 

'Saint  tum'd  Curtezan,'  40. 

Salmon,  William,  '  Pharmacopaeia 
Bateana,'166;  'DoronMedicum,' 
166. 

Saltmarsh,  John,  '  Free  Grace,'  173. 

Saltonstall,  Wye,  123. 

Sanderson,  Robert,  79. 

Saunders,  Sir  Edmund,  'Reports,' 
153. 

Schrevelius,  Cornelius,  'Lexicon,' 
85. 

Schickardus,  Wilhelmus,  *  Gram- 
mar,' 84. 

'Scoggins  Jests,'  106. 

Scroggs,  Sir  William,  trial  of  Harris, 
36;  dedication  to,  37  n. 

Scudery,  Madeleine  de,  'Clelia,' 
94. 

Sedgwick,  Obadiah,  '  Parable  of  the 
Prodigal,'  73 ;  '  Fountain  opened,' 
73;  'Humbled  Sinner,'  75. 

Seller,  John,  124;  'Practical  Navi- 
gation,' 94,  133, 166;  '  Atlas  Cae- 
lestis,'  122. 

Seneca,  98,  103. 

'Sententiae  Pueriles,'  86,  123,  141, 
149,  175. 

'Seven  Champions,'  85. 


'Seven  Wise  Masters,'  103,  106, 
171. 

Sew  all,  Samuel,  connection  with  Ive, 
8;  sails  with  Harris,  41;  books 
bound  for,  43 ;  reading,  54 ;  wigs, 
86  n. 

Shaftesbury,  'Pacquet  of  Advices,' 
14  w. 

Shaftsbury,  Earl  of,  see  Ashley. 

Shepard,  Thomas,  116;  'Sincere 
Convert,'  92,  122;  'Sound  Be- 
liever,' 93,  155. 

Sheppard,  William,  '  Grand  Abridg- 
ment,' 146,  151;  'Sure  Guide,' 
148. 

Sherlock,  William,  '  Anti-Sozzo,' 
139. 

Shipman,  T.,  'Carolina,'  172. 

Shirley,  Sir  C,  7S. 

Shirley,  John,  'Guy  of  Warwick,' 
104. 

'Shorter  Catechism,'  177,  180. 

Shower,  John,  'Sermon  on  Mrs. 
Bamardiston,'  136 ; '  Practical  Re- 
flections on  Earthquakes,'  167; 
'Day  of  Grace,'  170. 

Sibbes,  Richard,  'Bowels  Opened,' 
56. 

Sidenham,  ,  13. 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  'Arcadia,'  97, 
125. 

Simpson,  Sidrach,  91. 

'Sinners  Lamentation,'  78. 

Slater,  ,  'Tliessalonians,'  7^. 

Sluyter,  Peter,  3,  9  w. 

Smetius,  Henricus,  'Prosodia,'  168. 

Smith,  J.,  'History  of  Joseph,'  106. 

Smith,  John,  'Narrative,'  98. 

Smith,  John,  'Mystery  of  Rheto- 
rick,'  126. 

Smith,  Ralph,  36  n. 

Smith,  Samuel,  'Great  Assize,'  134, 
140,  158,  159,  170. 


C    195  3 


Index 


*  Society  of  the  Saints,'  77. 

Southamfiton  merchant,  20. 

'Spiritual  Motives,'  77. 

Stafford,  see  William  Howard. 

Stapleton,  Sir  Robert,  163. 

Stationers'  Company,  London,  7; 
interest  in  text-books,  47,  48. 

Stationery,  invoice  of,  81. 

Stevens,  ,  'Thanksgiving  Ser- 
mon,' 178. 

Stillingfleet,  Edward,  'Letter  to  a 
Deist,'  15. 

Stoddon,  Samuel,  'Pastor's  Charge,' 
173. 

Stoughton,  William,  24. 

Stretton,  ,  24. 

'String  of  Pearls,'  see  Brooks. 

Strong,  Nathaniel,  'England's  per- 
fect School-master,'  113,  122, 
166. 

Stubbe,  Henry,  '  Conscience  the  best 
Friend,'  174,  179. 

Sturmius,  Joannes,  130. 

Sturmy,  Samuel,  'Mariner's  Maga- 
zine,' 85,  129,  163. 

'  Supplement  to  Morning  Exercises, ' 
125. 

'Sure  Guide  to  Justices,'  110. 

Susan  and  Thomas,  21,  24. 

Sutton,  Thomas,  'Lectures,'  75. 

Swinnock,  George, '  Christian  Man's 
Calling,'  73;  'Heaven  and  HeU,' 
73;  'Calling,'  75. 

Sydenham,  Humphrey,  'Five  Ser- 
mons,' 75. 

Sylvanus,  George,  classical  authors, 
150,  152. 

Symon,  ,  sermons,  75. 

Tanner,  John, '  Hidden  Treasures,' 

100,  130. 
Tasso,  Torquato,  '  Godfrey  of  Bul- 

loigne,'  165. 


Tate,  Faithful,  *  Scripture  Map,'  73, 

87,  119. 
Tate,  Nahum,  'Psalms,'  176. 
Tavemier,  Jean  Baptiste, '  Voyages, ' 

45. 
Taylor,  Jeremy,  'Great  Examplar,' 

78;  'Contemplations,'  179. 

Taylor,  ,  sermons,  79. 

Temple,    Sir    William,    '  Observa- 
tions,' 45;  'Miscellanea,'  100. 
Terentius,  88,  142,  148. 
'  Term  Catalogues, '  62 . 
'  Terms  of  the  Law,'  145,  153. 
Text-books,  47. 
Theophilus,   ,  '  The   Christian 

Warfare,'  31. 
Theocritus,  150. 
'  Thesaurus  Poeticus, '  1 75 . 
'Thirty  Important  Cases,'  177. 
Thomas  a  Kempis,  58  n.,  60,  179. 
Thomcomb,  Andrew,  26. 
Tokefield,  George,  40  n. 
'  Token  for  shipp  boys,'  31. 
'  Tom  a  Lincoln,'  104. 
'Tom  Reading,'  104. 
'  Tongue  Combatants,'  26. 
'Treatise    of    Christian    Charter,' 

78. 
'  Treatise  of  Emit  Trees,'  80. 
Trenchfield,  Caleb,  '  Cap  of  Gray 

Hairs,'  94. 
'  Triumphs  of  Justice,'  37  w. 
Turk's  Head,  11. 
Tuthill,  Zechariah,  182. 
Two  Angels  and  Crown,  17. 
'  Two     Journeys     to     Jerusalem,' 

138. 

Underhill,  Jane,  10. 
Underbill,  Thomas,  10  ;  *  Hell 's 

brooke  loose,'  11. 
Unity,  81. 


C   196  ] 


Index 


*  Unlucky  Citizen,'  103. 

'  Use  of  the  Quadrant,'  166. 

Usher,  Bridget  (Lisle |  Hoar),  16  n. 

Usher,  Elizabeth  (Lidget),  16 /z. 

Usher,  Hezekiah,  30,  72,  80. 

Usher,  Hezekiah,  Jr.,  16  n. 

Usher,  John,  papers,  6 ;  letter  to 
Chiswell,  13 ;  coach  of,  16  ;  house 
of,  23  n. ;  Dunton  on,  27. 

'  Valentine  and  Orson,'  90. 

Varick,  Rudolphus,  66. 

Venn,  Thomas,  *  Military  and  Mari- 
time Discipline,'  110. 

Vere,  Sir  Francis,  111. 

Vernon,  John,  *  Compleat  Compting- 
house,'  113,  135,  171. 

Vincent,  Nathaniel,  'True  Touch- 
stone,' 52;  'Little  Child's  Cate- 
chism,' 101,  155,  159;  'Judg- 
ment,' 160,  168;  'Conversion  of 
the  Soul,'  168. 

Vines,  Richard,  'Saints'  nearness  to 
God,'  157. 

'Violations  of  Property,'  171. 

Virgilius,  174. 

Virginia,  printing-press  in,  61;  books 
in,  66. 

W  AKELY,  Andrew,  *  Mariner's  Com- 
pass rectified,'  168. 

Wakeman,  Sir  George,  106. 

Waldron,  ,  13. 

Walker,  Anthony,  'Virtuous  Wo- 
man found,'  101,  121. 

Walker,  William,  '  Modest  Plea  for 
Infant  Baptism,'  15. 

Walker,  William,  'Syntaxis,'  175. 

'War  with  the  Jews,'  104. 

Warwick,  Mary,  Countess  of,  121. 

Watson,  Thomas,  'Beatitudes,'  76; 
'Divine  Contentment,'  102. 

Wentworth,  Thomas,  'Office  and 
Duty  of  Executors,'  142. 


Whippo,  Experience  (Hinckley) , 
158  n. 

Whippo,  James,  account,  158. 

White,  Roger,  22. 

Whiting,  Samuel,  'Abraham's  In- 
tervention,' 59. 

Whitmore,  Sir  George,  79. 

'Whole  Duty  of  Man,'  142,  167. 

'Whole  Duty  of  a  Woman,'  172. 

Wigglesworth,  Michael,  'Day  of 
Doom,'  59,  156. 

Wild,  ,  'Poems,'  84,  130. 

Wilde,  John,  Captain,  20. 

Wilkins,  Richard,  23;  taxed,  29. 

Wilkinson,  Henry,  'Three  Dec- 
ades,' 74. 

Wilkinson,  Robert,  'Pair  of  Ser- 
mons,' 74. 

Willard,  Samuel,  'Cordials,'  56; 
'Spiritual  Desertions,'  174,  181, 
182;  'Peril  of  the  Times,'  174, 
181;  'Man  of  War,'  177,  180; 
'  Morality  not  to  be  relied  on, '  1 77, 
181.  [78. 

Williams,  Griffith,   'Right  Way,' 

Williams,  John,  'Warning  to  the 
Unclean,'  178. 

Williams,  ,  sermons,  78. 

Wilmot,  John,  Earl  of  Rochester, 
'Poems,'  121;  'Life,'  148. 

Wilson,  Thomas,  '  Complete  Chris- 
tian Dictionary,'  85,  109,  124, 
133. 

Wlngate,  Edmund,  'Arithmetic,' 
85,  147. 

Winney,  Samuel,  'God,'  173. 

Winthrop  family,  library  of,  3. 

Wise,  John,  108. 
'Wit's  Cabinet,'  155. 
'Wit's  Commonwealth,'  85,  97. 
'Wit's  Recreations,'  155. 

WoUebius,  Joannes,  'Compendium 
theologiae,'  127,  143. 


[  197 : 


Index 


Wolley,  Hannah,  '  Queen-like  Clos- 
et,' 94,  104. 

'Woman's  Advocate,'  115,  139. 

'Wonderful  Prodigies,'  149.    [137. 

'Wonders  of  the  Female  World,' 

Worlidge,  John,  '  Systema  Agricul- 
turae,'  167;  'Systema  Horti-cul- 
tura,'  169. 

Worthington,  John,  '  Form  of  Sound 
Words,'  171. 

Wright,  John,  18. 

Wright,  ,  on  'Psalms,'  79. 


Yates,  John,  91. 
Year  books,  154. 
Young,  Anthony,  12  n. 
Young,  E.,  'Speller,'  155,  168. 
Young,    Samuel,    'Vindiciae   Anti- 

Baxterianae,'  169. 
'Young  Secretary's  Guide,'  169. 

Zancheus,   Hieronymus,   'Opera,' 

109. 
Zouche,    Richard,   'Jurisdiction   of 

the  Admiralty,'  132. 


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